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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7,
+1854, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854
+ A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
+ Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
+
+Author: Various
+
+Other: George Bell
+
+Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27614]
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+Language: English
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+ Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis 7
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+_LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY_ 7, 1854.
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+ * * * * *
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+OUR NINTH VOLUME.
+
+The commencement of a New Year, and of our Ninth Volume, imposes upon Us
+the pleasant duty of wishing many happy returns of the season to all our
+Friends, Correspondents, and Readers.
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+Those of the latter class, who have so earnestly impressed upon Us the
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+Notes.
+
+A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM.
+
+ "_Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque
+ trouvaille à faire, même dans ce qui a été le plus visité_.--Henry
+ PATIN.
+
+I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its
+bibliographic peculiarities--which may almost pass for romance.
+
+It is a _Scottish_ work with regard to the family connexion of its author:
+it is an _Irish_ work with regard to the place of his nativity. It is an
+_English_ work as to the scenes which it represents; a _French_ work as to
+the language in which it was written; a _Dutch_ work as to the country in
+which it came to light. It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since
+borne the name of its author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it
+has been twice printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as
+fiction: it is now believed to be history.
+
+But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must not
+add to the number. The work to which I allude is the _Mémoires du comte de
+Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton_.
+
+The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work remind me
+of my _portefeuille Hamiltonien_, and impose on me the task of a partial
+transcription of its contents.
+
+Of the numerous editions of the _Mémoires de Grammont_ as recorded by
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+examination of future editors:
+
+ 1. "_Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant
+ particuliérement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le
+ regne de Charles II._ A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12^o, pp. 4
+ + 428.
+
+ "AVIS DU LIBRAIRE.--Il seroit inutile de recommander ici la lecture des
+ mémoires qui composent ce volume: le titre seul de _Mémoires du comte
+ de Grammont_ réveillera sans doute la curiosité du public pour un homme
+ qui lui est déjà si connu d'ailleurs, tant par la réputation qu'il a
+ sçu se faire, que par les différens portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de
+ Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs ouvrages; et l'on ne doute
+ nullement qu'il ne reçoive, avec beaucoup de plaisir, un livre, dans
+ lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il en a bien voulu
+ raconter lui-même à celui qui a pris la peine de dresser ces mémoires.
+
+ "Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent
+ particuliè[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous
+ le regne de Charles II; et, comme on y découvre quantité de choses, qui
+ ont été tenues cachées jusqu'à présent, et qui font voir jusqu'à quel
+ excès on a porté le déréglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le
+ morceau le moins intéressant de ces mémoires.
+
+ "On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a reçue de Paris:
+ et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a été
+ possible."
+
+The above is the _first_ edition. The imprint is fictitious. It was much
+used by the Elzévirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second edition, with
+the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de Sardière, No. 939.).
+The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716. The _avis_ is omitted
+in that edition, and in all the later impressions which I have seen. Its
+importance as a history of the publication induces one to revive it. There
+is also an edition printed at Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.);
+and another at La Haye in 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits
+the edition of 1713. Renouard and Quérard notice it too briefly.
+
+ 2. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
+ Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentée d'un discours préliminaire mêlé
+ de prose et de vers, par le même auteur, et d'un avertissement
+ contenant quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton._ A Paris,
+ chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la croix d'or. 1746." 12^o. pp.
+ 24 + 408.
+
+ "AVERTISSEMENT. Le public a fait un accueil si favorable à ces
+ _Mémoires_, que nous avons crû devoir en procurer une nouvelle edition.
+ Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, très-piquantes par
+ elles-mêmes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse d'Angleterre sous le
+ regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs écrits d'une maniére si vive
+ et si ingénieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de plaire infiniment,
+ quand la matiére en seroit moins interessante.
+
+ "Le héros de ces _Mémoires_ a trouvé dans le comte Hamilton un
+ historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la
+ même main à qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappés au même
+ coin.
+
+ "Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mêlé de prose et de
+ vers, où l'on exagére la difficulté qu'il y a de bien répresenter le
+ comte de Grammont. On reconnoîtra facilement que ce discours est du
+ même auteur que les _Mémoires_, et qu'il devoit naturellement en {4}
+ orner le frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en
+ apprécier le mérite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un goût
+ sûr et délicat le comparent au _Voyage de Chapelle_, et qu'ils y
+ trouvent les mêmes graces, le même naturel et la même légereté.
+
+ "Il ne nous reste plus qu'à dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-même, auteur
+ de ces mémoires, et du discours qui les précede.
+
+ "Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, étoit de l'ancienne et illustre
+ maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il nâquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pére le
+ chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi
+ duc de Châtelleraud en France.
+
+ "Sa mére étoit madame Marie Butler, soeur du duc d'Ormond, viceroi
+ d'Irlande, et grand maître de la maison du roi Charles.
+
+ "Dans les révolutions qui arrivérent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent
+ le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frére qui passérent en France. Ils y
+ amenérent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit à peine que de naître.
+
+ "Lorsque le roi fut rétabli sur son trône, il ramena en Angleterre les
+ jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les mémoires de Grammont combien
+ cette cour étoit brillante; la curiosité y attira le comte de Grammont.
+ Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas à sentir le pouvoir
+ de ses charmes, il l'épousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'_Antoine_
+ avoit pour sa soeur, qui l'engagea à faire plusieurs voyages en France,
+ où il étoit élevé, et où il a passé une partie de sa vie.
+
+ "M. Antoine Hamilton étant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en
+ Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ébranler ni sa religion, ni la
+ fidélité qu'il devoit à son roi.
+
+ "Le roi Jaques étant monté sur le trône, il lui donna un regiment
+ d'infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince,
+ ayant été obligé de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la
+ famille royale en France. C'est-là et pendant le long séjour qu'il y a
+ fait, qu'il a composé les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de
+ réputation. Il mourut à S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands
+ sentimens de piété, et après avoir reçu les derniers sacremens. Il
+ étoit âgé alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a mérité les regrets de tous ceux
+ qui avoient le bonheur de le connoître. Né sérieux, il avoit dans
+ l'esprit tous les agrémens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de
+ louanges, à ces agrémens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit
+ toutes les qualitéz du coeur."
+
+If the above _avertissement_ first appeared in 1746, which I have much
+reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The
+biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later
+memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moréri of 1759, we have it almost _verbatim_,
+but taken from the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1749. Neither
+Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Quérard notice the edition of 1746. The copy
+which I have examined has the book-plate G. III. R.
+
+ 3. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton_. 1760."
+ [De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée, 1760.] 12^o. I. partie, pp. 36 +
+ 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340.
+
+This edition has the same _avertissement_ as that of 1746. The imprint is
+M.DCC.LX. The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the
+water-mark _Auvergne_ 1749. At the end of the second part appears, _De
+l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée_, 1760. This must be M. François Didot of
+Paris. I find the same colophon in the _Bibliographie instructive_, 1763-8.
+v. 631. This very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic
+trio!
+
+ 4. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
+ Hamilton_. _Nouvelle edition_, _augmentée de notes et d'eclaircissemens
+ necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole_. Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill. 1772."
+ 4^o, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits.
+
+ [Dedication.] "À madame....
+
+ "L'éditeur vous consacre cette édition, comme un monument de son
+ amitié, de son admiration, et de son respect; à vous, dont les grâces,
+ l'esprit, et le goût retracent au siècle présent le siècle de Louis
+ quatorze et les agrémens de l'auteur de ces mémoires."
+
+Such are the inscriptions on the _Strawberry-Hill gem_. Much has been said
+of its brilliancy--and so, for the sake of novelty, I shall rather dwell on
+its flaws.
+
+The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at
+Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of
+which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions--now for its
+flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had to insert
+_eight_ accents to make decent French of it! The _avis_ is a mere medley of
+fragments: I could not ask a compositor to set it up! The _avertissement_
+is copied, without a word of intimation to that effect, from the edition of
+1746. The notes to the _épître_ are also copied from that edition, except
+_L'abbé de Chaulieu_; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same
+source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in
+part taken from an erroneous printed _Key_. Where are the
+_éclaircissements_? I find none except a list of proper names--of which
+about one-third part is omitted!
+
+In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the _Manuel du
+libraire_, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the _avis_ prefixed to
+the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1812; in quoting Quérard, to _La
+France littéraire_, 1827-39. The other references are to sale catalogues.
+The titles of the books described, and the extracts, are given _literatim_,
+and, except as above noted, with the same accentuation and punctuation.
+
+To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French
+text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made.
+That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque!
+
+The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of the
+editions of 1713 and 1746--the rectification of the names of persons {5}
+and places--a revision of the punctuation--and a strict conformity, as to
+general orthography and accentuation, with the _Dictionnaire de l'Académie
+française_, as edited in 1835. The substance of the _avis_ of 1713 might be
+stated in a preface; and the _avertissement_ of 1746, a clever composition,
+would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt
+its value may consult the _Grand dictionnaire historique_, and the
+_Biographie universelle_. As one hundred and sixty persons are noticed in
+the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would require much
+research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave would, however, be
+very serviceable--more so, I conceive, than the printed notes of M. Horace
+Walpole.
+
+As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I shall
+conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid the
+_jolie édition_ printed at Paris by F. A. Didot, _par ordre de monseigneur
+le comte d'Artois_, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen of editorship.
+Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a piratical
+pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible books; the
+portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be chiefly
+copies of prints--not _d'après des tableaux originaux_. The most desirable
+editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772, as a _curiosity_; 3.
+That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812, 18^o. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by
+M. Renouard in 1812, 8^o. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms
+part of the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_ in 3 vols. It seldom occurs
+for sale.
+
+BOLTON CORNEY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE "ANCREN RIWLE."
+
+The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise on
+the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society,
+under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable, and
+both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who are
+interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in the
+subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably
+executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks on
+the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton is
+unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen
+College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original
+vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by
+permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and
+after reading and making extracts from it[1], I came to the same conclusion
+as Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the
+internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts
+containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that
+Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original
+author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have
+not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident
+that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop
+Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the
+oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made in
+it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the printed
+edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been, with
+advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are passed
+over. Thus, at p. 8., for _unweote_ the second hand has _congoun_; at p.
+62., for _herigen_ it has _preisen_; at p. 90., for _on cheafle_, it reads
+_o muþe_, &c. The original hand has also some remarkable variations, which
+would cause a suspicion that this was the first draft of the author's work.
+Thus, at p. 12., for _scandle_, the first hand has _schonde_; at p. 62.,
+for _baldeliche_ it reads _bradliche_; at p. 88., for _nout for_, it has
+_anonden_, and the second hand _aneust_; at p. 90., for _sunderliche_ it
+reads _sunderlepes_, &c. All these, and many other curious variations, are
+not noticed in the printed edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written,
+in a hand of the time of Edward I., as follows: "_Datum abbatie et
+conventui de Leghe per Dame M. de Clare._" The lady here referred to was
+doubtless Maud de Clare, second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford
+and Gloucester, who, at the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known
+to have changed the Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an
+abbess and nuns of the same order; and it was probably at the same period
+she bestowed this volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop
+Poore, who died in 1237, might have been the original author of the _Ancren
+Riwle_, is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error
+as to Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to
+Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the fly-leaves
+of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their respective
+contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is more blamable,
+and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but (as remarked by
+Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of the work. The real
+fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged Latin version of the
+seven books of the _Riwle_ now preserved in Magdalen College, and this
+supposition may well enough be reconciled with the words of Leland, who
+says of him,--
+
+ "Edidit inter cætera, libros _septem_ de Vita Solitaria, {6} ad
+ Virgines Tarentinas, Duriæ cultrices."--_Comment_., p. 316.
+
+A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian collection
+(Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been recovered from
+the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of 1731. I am
+happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the manuscript
+marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of the _Riwle_,
+made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing with the vernacular
+text), has been entirely restored, except that the top margins of the
+leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This damage has,
+unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the treatise, and the
+title given us by Smith is copied partly from James's note. This copy of
+the French version appears to be unique, and is the more interesting from
+its having a note at the end (now half obliterated by the fire), stating
+that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, whose motto is
+also added, "_Plesance. M [mil]. en vn_." The personage in question was
+Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and wife of
+Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as a nun in the convent at Barking
+in 1399. Is any other instance known of the use of this motto? Before I
+conclude these brief remarks, I may mention a _fifth_ copy of the _Ancren
+Riwle_, which has escaped the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the
+enormous folio manuscript of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon
+MS., in the Bodleian Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and
+occurs at pp. 371^b.--392. In the table of contents prefixed to this volume
+it is entitled "The Roule of Reclous;" and although the phraseology is
+somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS. Cleopatra C. vi, than
+with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton's edition is printed. This copy is
+not complete, some leaves having been cut out in the sixth book, and the
+scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed edition.
+
+It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task of
+editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same age as
+the _Ancren Riwle_, still existing in various manuscripts. One of the
+homilies, entitled "Sawles Warde," in the Bodley MS. 34., Cott. MS. Titus
+D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17A. xxvii., is very curious, and well
+deserves to be printed.
+
+F. MADDEN.
+
+British Museum.
+
+[Footnote 1: At p. viii. of Mr. Morton's preface, for "yerze" (eye), my
+extracts read "yze."]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY, A.D. 1650-51.
+
+At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant
+children?" is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds, it
+may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order
+addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which
+applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that
+some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those
+with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment between
+vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of
+observation.
+
+ "BY THE MAYOR.
+
+ "Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to put
+ in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants, and
+ passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great scandall
+ and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These are
+ therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call
+ before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to
+ charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty
+ of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant
+ that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end
+ the said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the
+ several persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are
+ further to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not
+ fit to work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where
+ they dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging,
+ shal give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she
+ were taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. _And for
+ children under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give
+ an account of their parents, the parish where they are found are to
+ provide for them; and for those which shall bee found lying under
+ stalls, having no habitation or parents (from five to nine years old),
+ are to be sent to the Wardrobe House_[2], _to be provided for by the
+ corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be
+ sent to Bridewel._ And for men or women who are able to work and goe
+ begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be
+ passed to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken
+ againe, they are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according
+ to the discretion of the governours. _And for those persons that shal
+ be found to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking,
+ those children are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel,
+ and the persons so hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed
+ away, or kept at work there, according to the governour's discretion._
+ And for al other vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to
+ be forthwith sent down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected,
+ according to the statute laws of this commonwealth, except before
+ excepted; and the president and governours of Bridewel are hereby
+ desired to meet twice every week to see to the execution of this
+ Precept. _And the steward of the workehouse called the Wardrobe, is {7}
+ authorised to receive into that house such children as are of the age
+ between five and nine, as is before specified and limited_; and the
+ said steward is from time to time to acquaint the corporation for the
+ poor, what persons are brought in, to the end they may bee provided
+ for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January, 1650.
+
+ SADLER."
+
+JOHN BRUCE.
+
+[Footnote 2: I suppose this to have been the ancient building known by the
+name of The Royal, or The Tower Royal, used for a time as the Queen's
+Wardrobe. It will be seen that it was occupied in 1650 as a workhouse.]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.
+
+ Sir,
+
+ I send you, as a New Year's Gift for your "N. & Q.," transcripts of
+ half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose
+ correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve,
+
+ Yours faithfully,
+ HENRY ELLIS.
+
+British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853.
+
+I.
+
+_Dean Swift to_ * * * * * * *.
+
+[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. _Orig_.]
+
+ Belcamp, Mar. 14th.
+
+ Sir,
+
+ Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his
+ house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a
+ plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him
+ in the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks
+ to cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no
+ longer. Mr. Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object
+ to be received into Dr. Stephen's Hospital. The boy tells his story
+ naturally, and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him
+ curable, and it be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you
+ will receive him.
+
+ I am, Sir,
+ Your most humble Servt.
+ JONATH. SWIFT.
+
+II.
+
+_The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley_.
+
+[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. _Orig_.]
+
+ Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718].
+
+ Worthy Sir
+
+ I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for
+ me she may be very easy: tho' I could wish for the sake of the
+ University (tho' I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation)
+ that you could recover the Book, or at least could find where it is
+ lodged, that Mr. Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume,
+ may be done.
+
+ If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a great
+ discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and began
+ to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of Ely's
+ Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been
+ printed by Guttenberg; for tho' it be printed at Ments, yet there is no
+ name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust's
+ Tullie's Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the
+ first on vellum, the other on paper.
+
+ May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as
+ Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of
+ Edw. the Sixth's first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether
+ either of them be printed by Grafton, the King's Printer? I have seen
+ four or five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by
+ Grafton, except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a
+ great Rarity, if it be likewise wanting to my Lord's Collection. It
+ varies from all the other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest,
+ I think, in 1549. One reason of my enquiry is, because I want the
+ Title, for the date is at the end of the Book, and indeed twice; both
+ on the end of the Communion Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your
+ pardon for so small an enquiry, whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg
+ and Nic. Jenson. My business consists much in trifles.
+
+ I am, Sir,
+ Your most ob. humble
+ Servant,
+ THO. BAKER.
+
+ To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the
+ Riding Hood Shop, the corner
+ of Chandois and Bedford Streets,
+ Covent Garden,
+ London.
+
+A note in Wanley's hand says, "Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small
+scores."
+
+III.
+
+_Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to the Rev. Mr. Amory of
+Taunton, dated Dunsland, March_ 7, 1731.
+
+[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.]
+
+ I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation
+ to Charles the Second's Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of
+ the Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly
+ transacted that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it
+ were sent him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after
+ the thing was finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these
+ Letters and other papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his
+ History, and which were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was
+ chancellor, told Morrice's Grandson that if he would file a Bill in
+ Chancery, he would endeavour to get them; but young Morrice having
+ deserted the Whig Interest, was {8} prevailed upon to let it drop. This
+ I know to be fact, for I had it not only from the last-mentioned
+ Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son of the
+ Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity of
+ searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one
+ time or other I design to publish together with the account of that
+ affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him
+ say that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the
+ least of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the
+ Nation, had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke
+ of York) to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to
+ their Infamy.
+
+(_To be continued._)
+
+ * * * * *
+
+BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.
+
+On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village and
+church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested by
+the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect position
+on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They proved to be
+those which once had covered and protected the grave of the good Archbishop
+Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that parish, and that
+of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it appeared that their
+remains had been deposited within a small chapel on the south side of the
+chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family, of Broadhurst, in the
+parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither in 1674, and resided with
+his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it
+may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly mentioned by the biographers of
+Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an ancient mansion, the residence
+formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated about a mile north of the village
+of Horsted. There it was that Leighton made his will, in February, 1683;
+but his death occurred, it will be remembered, in singular accordance with
+his desire often expressed, at an inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London.
+
+The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an arch
+now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a school-room;
+more recently, however, either through its becoming out of repair, or from
+some other cause, the little structure was demolished. The large slabs
+which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his brother were taken up
+and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now covers the space thus
+thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to mark the position of
+the graves, which in all probability, ere many years elapse, will be
+disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the ashes of Leighton
+scattered to the winds.
+
+In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies of
+bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so well
+carried out by MR. MARKLAND in regard to the grave of Bishop Ken, shall we
+not make an effort to preserve from desecration and oblivion the
+resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton for his learning and piety, so
+worthy to be held in honoured remembrance for his high principles and his
+consistent conduct in an evil age?
+
+ALBERT WAY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_Grammars, &c. for Public Schools._--Would it not be desirable for some
+correspondents of "N. & Q." to furnish information respecting grammars,
+classics, and other works which have been written for the various public
+schools? Such information might be useful to book collectors; and would
+also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose learned masters have
+prepared such books. My contribution to the list is small: but I remember a
+valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev. ---- Hook, formerly head master
+of the College School at Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as
+also a peculiar English grammar prepared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master
+of St. Mary de Crypt School, in the same place, for the use of that school.
+I also possess a copy (1640) of the _Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia_, for the
+use of Abingdon School, and _Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of
+the Hebrews_ (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written
+after he ceased to be master of the schools.
+
+P. H. FISHER.
+
+Stroud.
+
+"_To captivate._"--Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the Americans
+(January 9th, 1819), says:
+
+ "They sometimes, I see, use the word _captivate_ thus: 'Five or six
+ ships captivated,' 'Five or six ships captivated.'"
+
+Originally, the words _to captivate_ were synonymous with _to capture_, and
+the expression was used with reference to warlike operations. To captivate
+the affections was a secondary use of the phrase. The word is used in the
+original sense in many old English books. It is not used so now in the
+United States.
+
+UNEDA.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+_Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster._--Under the year A.D. 782, the
+translator informs us that "Hirenes and _his_ son Constantine became
+emperors." Such an emperor is not to be found {9} in the annals of
+Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge, who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon,
+had referred to him on this occasion, he would probably have found that the
+Empress Irene, a name dear to the reverencers of images, was the person
+meant. The original Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this
+empress, who is considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the
+deposition and blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily
+forgotten.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.--_
+
+ "A la Saint-Antoine (17th January)
+ Les jours croissent le repas d'un moine."
+
+ "A la Saint-Barnabé (11th June)
+ La faux au pré."
+
+ "A la Sainte-Cathérine (25th November)
+ Tout bois prend racine."
+
+ "Passé la Saint-Clément (23rd November)
+ Ne sème plus froment."
+
+ "Si l'hiver va droit son chemin,
+ Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.)
+
+ "S'il n'arreste tant ne quant,
+ Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Clément." (23rd Nov.)
+
+ "Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombrée,
+ Vous l'aurez à la Saint-André." (30th Nov.)
+
+CEYREP.
+
+_Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.--_
+
+ "Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus
+ Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua.
+ Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus.
+ Cælum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris.
+ Ob^t. 27 Mar. 1624. Æt. 77."
+
+Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine:
+
+ "Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole,
+ Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul;
+ But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name,
+ Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame.
+ A priest of priests, inferior was to none,
+ Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run.
+ Thus ends the record of this pious man;
+ Go and do likewise, reader, if you can."
+
+C. K. P.
+
+Newport, Essex.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE.
+
+In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund
+Burke," which appeared in the _Athenæum_ of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th (and to
+which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. & Q." as have not
+yet seen it), the writer observes:
+
+ "There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to infer
+ from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or
+ document of any kind--except a mysterious fragment of one
+ letter--relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long after
+ Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from
+ parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother,
+ or brother to sister."
+
+And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference
+drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the grounds
+which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in writings is to
+call attention to a source from which, if any such letters exist, they may
+yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of professed collectors
+of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be conceived that the
+destroyer of these materials for the history of the Burkes, be he who he
+may, can have got _all_ the family correspondence into his possession. On
+the other, it is far from improbable that in some of the collections to
+which I have alluded, some letters, notes, or documents may exist,
+treasured by the possessors as mere autographs; but which might, if given
+to the world, serve to solve many of those mysteries which envelope the
+early history of Edmund Burke. The discovery of documents of such a
+character seems to be the special province of "N. & Q.," and I hope,
+therefore, although this letter has extended far beyond the limits I
+originally contemplated, you will insert it, and so permit me to put this
+Query to autograph collectors, "Have you any documents illustrative of the
+Burkes?" and to add as a Note, "If so, print them!"
+
+N. O.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Farrant's Anthem._--From what source did Farrant take the words of his
+well-known anthem, "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake?"
+
+C. F. S.
+
+_Ascension Day Custom._--What is the origin of the custom which still
+obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting the clergy
+with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day?
+
+C. F. S.
+
+_Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections._--In Snelling's tract on
+_Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver Coins_ (1769), p. 45., it is
+stated, in the description of a gold Coin of Elizabeth, that it is "unique,
+formerly in the collection of Thomas Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the
+collection of Thomas Knight, Esq., who purchased the whole cabinet."--Can
+any of your readers inform me who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his
+collection is still in existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what
+manner? I am not aware of any sale catalogue under his name.
+
+J. B. B.
+
+_"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."_--I have met with, and
+sometimes quoted, this line. {10} Who is its author, and in what poem does
+it occur?
+
+J. W. T.
+
+Dewsbury.
+
+_Lord Fairfax._--In the _Peerage of Scotland_ I find this entry:
+
+ "Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of
+ Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship
+ resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States."
+
+Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of that
+family taking a part in Scotch affairs. _Cameron_ is, I suppose, the parish
+of that name in the east of Fife.
+
+I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances, the
+barony was created?
+
+2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in
+Scotland, if they ever held any?
+
+3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? If
+so, is he known and addressed as _Lord_ Fairfax, or how?
+
+4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of the
+United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to exercise
+the functions of a peer of Scotland, _e.g._ in the election of
+representative peers?
+
+5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly
+or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces
+allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the
+roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose
+existence is a denial of the first proposition in the constitution of his
+country?
+
+Perhaps UNEDA, W. W., or some other of your Philadelphia correspondents,
+will be good enough to notice the third of these Queries.
+
+W. H. M.
+
+_Tailless Cats._--A writer in the _New York Literary World_ of Feb. 7,
+1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of tails, which are found
+in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx correspondent will say
+whether this is a fact or a Jonathan.
+
+SHIRLEY HIBBERD.
+
+_Saltcellar._--Can any of your readers gainsay that in saltcellar the
+cellar is a mere corruption of _salière_? A list of compound words of Saxon
+and French origin might be curious.
+
+H. F. B.
+
+_Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos._--Can any reader of "N. &
+Q." give the _date_ of the grant of arms to Col. William Carlos (who
+assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal Oak," after the
+battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the grant?
+
+[mu].
+
+_Naval Atrocities._--In the article on "Wounds," in the _Encyc. Brit._, 4th
+edition, published 1810, the author, after mentioning the necessity of a
+surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on the character of any wound, adds
+that "this is particularly necessary on board ship, where, as soon as any
+man is pronounced by the surgeon to be mortally wounded, he is forthwith,
+while still living and conscious, thrown overboard," or words to this
+effect, as I quote from memory. That such horrid barbarity was not
+practised in 1810, it is needless to say; and if it had been usual at any
+previous period, Smollett and other writers who have exposed with unsparing
+hand all the defects in the naval system of their day, would have scarcely
+left this unnoticed when they attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing
+ever occurred, even in the worst of times, it must have been an isolated
+case. I have not met elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the
+atrocity recorded in it, and would be glad of more information on the
+subject.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Turlehydes._--During the great famine in Ireland land in 1331, it is said
+that--
+
+ "The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential
+ relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish,
+ called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on
+ shore at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty
+ feet long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of
+ the fish could not see one another."--_The History and Antiquities of
+ the City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts_, by Walter Harris, 1766,
+ p. 265.
+
+This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of which
+still exist. As the term _turlehydes_ is not known to Irish scholars, can
+any of the readers of "N. & Q." say what precise animal is meant by it, or
+give any derivation or reference for the term?
+
+U. U.
+
+Dublin.
+
+_Foreign Orders--Queen of Bohemia._--It is well known that in some foreign
+Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon ladies. Can any of your
+correspondents inform me whether the Order of the Annunciation of Sardinia,
+formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy, at any time conferred its
+decorations upon ladies; and whether the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards
+Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration of any foreign order conferred
+upon her? In a portrait of her she is represented with a star or badge upon
+the upper part of the left arm.
+
+S. E. G.
+
+_Pickard Family._--Is the _Pickard_, or _Picard_, family, a branch of which
+is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If so, who were the _first
+settlers_ in England; and also in what county are they most numerous?
+
+ONE OF THE FAMILY.
+
+Bradford.
+
+{11}
+
+_Irish Chieftains._--Some account of the following, _Historical
+Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and other Irish
+Chieftains_, privately printed, 1843, is requested by
+
+JOHN MARTIN.
+
+Woburn Abbey.
+
+_General Braddock._--Can any of your readers furnish me with information
+relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against Fort Du Quesne,
+and its details, are well known; but I should like to know something more
+of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or two of him, and
+mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think too he was of
+Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of Braddock in
+existence?
+
+SERVIENS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Minor Queries with Answers.
+
+_Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex._--A most extraordinary custom exists, in a
+manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what is called the "Lawless
+Court." This court is held at midnight, by torch-light, in the centre of a
+field, on the first Friday after the 29th Sept., and is presided over by
+the steward of the manor, who, however, appoints a deputy to fulfil this
+part of his duty. The tenants of the manor are obliged to attend to answer
+to their names, when called upon, under pain of a heavy fine, or at all
+events have some one there to respond for them. All the proceedings are
+carried on in a whisper, no one speaking above that tone of voice; and the
+informations as to deaths, names, &c. are entered in a book by the
+president with a piece of charcoal. I may add, the business is not
+commenced until a cock has crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a
+difficult matter to get Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to
+crow, whose fee therefor is 5s.
+
+Now Morant, in his _History of Essex_, merely cursorily mentions this most
+singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin; I should
+therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning it.
+
+RUSSELL GOLE.
+
+ [The singular custom at Rochford is of uncertain origin: in old authors
+ it is spoken of as belonging to the manor of Rayleigh. The following
+ account of "The Lawless Court," at that place, is printed by Hearne
+ from the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. cxxv.:--"The manor of
+ Raylie, in Essex, hath a custome court kept yearly, the Wednesday nexte
+ after Michael's day. The court is kept in the night, and without light,
+ but as the skye gives, att a little hill without the towne, called the
+ King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals, and not with
+ inke. And many men and mannors of greate worth hold of the same, and do
+ suite unto this strange court, where the steward calls them with as low
+ a voice as possibly he may; giving no notice when he goes to the hill
+ to keepe the same court, and he that attends not is deepely amerced, if
+ the steward will. The title and entry of the same court is as
+ followeth, viz.:
+
+ 'Curia de domino rege,
+ Dicta _sine lege_,
+ Tenta est ibidem,
+ Per ejusdem consuetudinem,
+ Ante ortum solis,
+ Luceat nisi polus,
+ Seneschallus solus,
+ Scribit nisi colis.
+ Clamat clam pro rege
+ In curia _sine lege_:
+ Et qui non cito venerit
+ Citius poenitebit:
+ Si venerit cum lumine
+ Errat in regimine.
+ Et dum sine lumine
+ Capti sunt in crimine,
+ Curia sine cura
+ Jurata de injuria
+ Tenta est die Mercuriæ
+ prox. post festum S. Michaelis.'"
+
+ Weever, who mentions this custom, says, that he was informed that "this
+ servile attendance was imposed, at the first, upon certaine tenants of
+ divers mannors hereabouts, for conspiring in this place, at such an
+ unseasonable time, to raise a commotion."]
+
+_Motto on old Damask._--Can your correspondents furnish an explanation of
+the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask table napkins which
+were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a shop in the ordinary way,
+but privately, from the family to whom they belonged. I presume the larger
+characters, if put together, will indicate the date of the event, whatever
+that may be, which is referred to in the motto itself.
+
+The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the
+following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as subjoined:
+
+ "SIGNUM PACIS DATUR LORICÆ."
+
+the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U's are taken as two V's, and
+written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be explained.
+
+H.
+
+ [The chronogram above, which means "The signal of peace is given to the
+ warrior," relates to the peace proclaimed between England and France in
+ the year 1763. This event is noticed in the _Annual Register_, and in
+ most of our popular histories. Keightley says, "The overtures of France
+ for peace were readily listened to; and both parties being in earnest,
+ the preliminaries were readily settled at Fontainebleau (Nov. 3rd). In
+ spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were approved
+ of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a treaty was
+ finally signed in Paris, Feb. 18, 1763." The napkins were probably a
+ gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. For the custom of
+ noting the date of a great event by chronograms, see "N. & Q.," Vol.
+ v., p. 585.]
+
+{12}
+
+_Explanation of the Word "Miser."_--Can any of your readers explain how and
+when _miser_ came to get the meaning of an avaricious hoarding man? In
+Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, II. l. 8., it is used in its nearly primary
+sense of "wretch:"
+
+ "Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble _miser's_ sake."
+
+Again, _Faerie Queene_, II. 3. 8.:
+
+ "The _miser_ threw himself, as an offall,
+ Straight at his foot in base humility."
+
+In Milton's _Comus_, which was written about fifty years after the first
+three books of the _Faerie Queene,_ the present signification of the word
+is complete:
+
+ "You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps
+ Of _miser's_ treasure by an outlaw's den,
+ And tell me it is safe, as bid one hope
+ Danger will sink on opportunity," &c.
+
+J. D. GARDNER.
+
+Bottisham.
+
+ [The modern restricted use of the word _miser_ is subsequent to
+ Shakspeare's time for in Part I. _King Henry VI._, Act V. Sc. 4.,
+
+ "Decrepit _miser_! base ignoble wretch!"
+
+ Steevens says has no relation to avarice, but simply means a
+ _miserable_ creature. So in the interlude of _Jacob and Esau_, 1568:
+
+ "But as for these _misers_ within my father's tent."
+
+ Again, in Lord Stirling's tragedy of _Croesus_, 1604:
+
+ "Or think'st thou me of judgement too remiss,
+ A _miser_ that in miserie remains."
+
+ Otway, however, in his _Orphan_, published in 1680, uses it for a
+ covetous person:
+
+ "Though she be dearer to my soul than rest
+ To weary pilgrims, or to _misers_ gold,
+ Rather than wrong Castalio, I'd forget thee."
+
+ So also does Pope:
+
+ "No silver saints by dying _misers_ given,
+ Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heaven."
+
+_"Acis and Galatea."_--Is there any good evidence in support of the
+commonly received opinion that the words to Handel's _Acis and Galatea_
+were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they "are said to have been
+written by Mr. Gay." I have no copy of Burney at hand to refer to; but I
+find the same statement repeated by various other musical historians,
+without, however, any authority being given for it. The words in question
+are not to be found among the _Poems on several Occasions_, by Mr. John
+Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others. Have they ever been included
+in any collective edition of his works?
+
+G. T.
+
+Reading.
+
+ [In the musical catalogue of the British Museum, compiled by Thomas
+ Oliphant, Esq., it is stated that the words to _Acis and Galatea_ "are
+ said to be written, but apparently partly compiled, by John Gay." This
+ serenata is included among Gay's _Poems_ in Dr. Johnson's edition of
+ the _English Poets_, 1790, as well as in Chalmers's edition of 1810,
+ and in the complete edition of _British Poets_, Edinburgh, 1794.]
+
+_Birm-bank._--The bank of a canal opposite to the towing-path is called the
+_birm-bank_. What is the derivation of this?
+
+UNEDA.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+ [The word _birm_ seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. _berme_),
+ which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of three, four, or
+ five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss,
+ designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the earth
+ from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in Holland is
+ generally planted with quickset hedge.]
+
+_General Thomas Gage._--This officer commanded at Boston at the breaking
+out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock. Where can I find
+any details of the remainder of his history?
+
+SERVIENS.
+
+ [An interesting biographical account of General Gage is given in the
+ _Georgian Æra_, vol. ii. p. 67.]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Replies.
+
+RAPPING NO NOVELTY.
+
+(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.)
+
+The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should like to
+know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially as there
+seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other grounds one
+would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the work which he
+quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement, some correspondent
+would be so good as to state whether it has the sanction of Baxter:
+
+ "Mr. Baxter, in his _Historical Discourse of Apparitions_, writes thus:
+ 'There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of
+ my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank,
+ who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall into
+ the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his
+ brother's house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself
+ sober, something knocks at his bed's head, as if one knocked on a
+ wainscot. When they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud
+ noises on other parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have
+ often watched him, and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His
+ brother has often told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman,
+ to attest it, who avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen
+ his shoes under the bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them.
+ They brought the man himself to me, and when we asked {13} him how he
+ dare sin again after such a warning, he had no excuse. But being
+ persons of quality, for some special reason of worldly interest I must
+ not name him.'"--De Foe's _Life of Duncan Campbell_, 2nd ed. p. 107.
+
+After this story, De Foe says:
+
+ "Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself
+ personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or
+ familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of
+ Wiltshire," &c.
+
+But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from
+Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in
+Beaumont's _Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of
+Spirits_, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe's
+saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont "personally," but does anybody know
+anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar
+inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been
+answered.
+
+S. R. MAITLAND.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 535.)
+
+From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's
+Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to MR.
+LATHBURY'S. This volume forms part of a collection of books bequeathed to
+the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A., formerly of Baliol College:
+
+ A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &c. 4to. London. 1762.
+
+In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form "A Prayer for the
+Reformed Churches" is included, which is omitted in all the subsequent
+Forms. This is a copy of it:
+
+ "_A Prayer for the Reformed Churches._
+
+ "O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee,
+ more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be
+ Thy Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect,
+ strengthen, 'stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty
+ wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our
+ Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at
+ present enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted
+ for Righteousness' sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy
+ people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them
+ Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the
+ World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all
+ may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls,
+ Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen."
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1776.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1778.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1780.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1781.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1782.
+
+ A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other days
+ immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all
+ Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &c., during
+ his Majesty's present Indisposition. 1788.
+
+The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch, father
+of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection:
+
+ "Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St.
+ Michael's, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself
+ and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society
+ for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity
+ Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and
+ saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the
+ cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of
+ more than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants
+ preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet
+ Street."--April 23, 1789.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King's Recovery. 1789.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1793.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1795.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1796.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important
+ Victories. 1797.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1798.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &c. 1798.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet,
+ Aug. 1. 1798.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H. R. H. the
+ Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1799.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1800.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1801.
+
+ Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801.
+
+ Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1803.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1804.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1805.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson's Victory. 1805.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1806.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1807.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1808.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1809.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1810.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1812.
+
+ Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814.
+
+ Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816.
+
+JOHN MACRAY.
+
+Oxford.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+{14}
+
+CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 174.)
+
+There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is one
+full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth
+mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only of
+late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they are
+compared together, the more important and the more striking do the
+resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek
+literature applies equally to Latin, "that we seem now to have reached that
+point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of the
+same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh step
+in advance." But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and Latin,
+is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman, in his
+_Regal Rome_, has attention to the subject; but his induction does not
+appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion respecting
+the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin. Pritchard's work
+upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but both these authors
+have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of Celtic and Latin
+words; but it is not _merely_ this we want. What is required is a critical
+examination into the comparative structure and formal development of the
+two languages, and this is a work still to be accomplished. The later
+numbers of Bopp's _Comparative Grammar_ are, I believe, devoted to this
+subject, but as they have not been translated, they must be confined to a
+limited circle of English readers, and I have not yet seen any reproduction
+of the views therein contained in the philological literature of England.
+
+As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a large
+induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the pages of "N.
+& Q." might be made useful in supplying "links of connexion" to supply a
+groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude by suggesting one or two
+"links" that I do not remember to have seen elsewhere.
+
+1. Is the root of _felix_ to be found in the Irish _fail_, _fate_; the
+contraction of the dipththong _ai_ or _ê_ being analogous to that of
+_amaïmus_ into _amêmus_?
+
+2. Is it not probable that _Avernus_, if not corrupted from [Greek:
+aornos], is related to _iffrin_, the Irish _inferi_? This derivation is at
+any rate more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with
+[Greek: Acherôn].
+
+3. Were the _Galli_, priests of Cybele, so called as being connected with
+fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the Celtic _gal_, a
+flame? The word _Gallus_, a Gaul, is of course the same as the Irish _gal_,
+a stranger.
+
+T. H. T.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 468.)
+
+MR. INGLEBY'S question might easily be the foundation of a geometrical
+paper; but as this would not be a desirable contribution, I will endeavour
+to keep clear of technicalities, in pointing out how the process described
+may give something near to a circle, or may not.
+
+When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two parts
+perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is _symmetrical_ about that
+straight line, which may be called an _axis of symmetry_. Thus every
+diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular oval has two
+axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every regular polygon of an
+_odd_ number of sides has an axis joining each corner to the middle of the
+opposite sides: every regular polygon of an _even_ number of sides has axes
+joining opposite corners, and axes joining the middles of opposite sides.
+
+When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or curvilinear,
+is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of either side which
+are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded figure will of
+course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If another line be
+now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process repeated, the second
+line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first perhaps ceases to be one.
+If the process be then repeated on the first line, this last becomes an
+axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an axis. If this process can be
+indefinitely continued, the cuttings must become smaller and smaller, for
+the following reason. Suppose, at the outset, the boundary point nearest to
+the intersection of the axes is distant from that intersection by, say four
+inches; it is clear that we cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a
+part of the boundary at less than four inches from the intersection. For
+there never is, after any cutting, any approach to the intersection except
+what there already was on the other side of the axis employed, before that
+cutting was made. If then the cuttings should go on for ever, or
+practically until the pieces to be cut off are too small, and _if this take
+place all round_, the figure last obtained will be a good representation of
+a circle of four inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always
+cutting down, at all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we
+can never come nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes.
+
+But it does not follow that the process _will_ go on for ever. We may come
+at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of symmetry at once;
+and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a curvilinear
+boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the proper angle,
+it would happen that we should arrive at a {15} _regular_ curved polygon,
+having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process would then stop.
+
+I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere
+rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is
+still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the
+ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters
+alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so
+many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval.
+But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a
+perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its
+sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be
+that of a circle.
+
+Suppose, as in MR. INGLEBY'S question, that the creases are not at right
+angles to each other; supposing the eye and the scissors _perfect_, the
+results will be as follows:
+
+First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the mathematicians
+call _incommensurable_ with the whole revolution; that is, suppose that no
+repetition of the angle will produce an _exact_ number of revolutions. Then
+the cutting will go on for ever, and the result will perpetually approach a
+circle. It is easily shown that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has
+two axes of symmetry which make an angle incommensurable with the whole
+revolution.
+
+Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the
+revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be
+repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even, it
+is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd, it
+is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon.
+
+Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the
+creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of the
+creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that fourteen
+repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an exact number of
+revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular polygon of fourteen
+sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had been taken for the
+angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have had thirty-four
+sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that the number of
+ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular appearance.
+
+Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three or
+more axes, whether all passing through one point or not.
+
+A. DE MORGAN.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE BLACK-GUARD.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 414.)
+
+Some of your correspondents, SIR JAMES E. TENNENT especially, have been
+very learned on this subject, and all have thrown new light on what I
+consider a very curious inquiry. The following document I discovered some
+years ago in the Lord Steward's Offices. Your readers will see its value at
+once; but it may not be amiss to observe, that the name in its present
+application had its origin in the number of masterless boys hanging about
+the verge of the Court and other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and
+palace stables; ready with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct,
+and rob people on foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow
+the Court in its progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope's "link-boys
+vile" are the black-guard boys of the following Proclamation.
+
+PETER CUNNINGHAM.
+
+At the Board of Green Cloth,
+in Windsor Castle,
+this 7th day of May, 1683.
+
+Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and rogues,
+commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose fellowes,
+vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually haunt and
+follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as Wee are
+informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that happened in
+the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently do commit
+divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where they resort,
+to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the prevention of which
+evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby strictly charge and
+command all those so called the Black-guard as aforesaid, with all other
+loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and wanderers, who have
+intruded themselves into His Majesty's Court or stables, that within the
+space of twenty-four houres next after the publishing of this order, they
+depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and such other punishments as by law are
+to be inflicted on them.
+
+ (Signed)
+ ORMOND.
+ H. BULKELEY.
+ H. BROUNCKER.
+ RICH. MASON.
+ STE. FOX.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB.
+
+(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.)
+
+The Calves' Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their doings
+were commemorated in the _Weekly Oracle_ (Vol. viii., p. 315.) of February
+1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii., p. 480.). There is a
+pamphlet, {16} the second edition of which was published in small 4to., in
+1703, entitled:
+
+ "The Secret History of the Calves' Head Club, or, the Republican
+ Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head
+ Heroes in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of
+ January, by their Anthems," &c. &c.
+
+We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work was
+published "to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a certain
+party still among us," and certainly the statements therein, and more than
+all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest hatred--so bitter, so
+intense and malignant, that we feel on reading it that there must be some
+exaggeration.
+
+The author professes to have at first been of opinion "that the story was
+purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious than they
+deserv'd." Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular demonstration
+he does not tell us, but gives us information he received from a
+gentleman--
+
+ "Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their
+ Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was
+ inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as
+ they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em
+ was in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly
+ consisted of Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of
+ the Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry
+ White, formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to
+ sanctify with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said
+ Grace; that after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem,
+ as they impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with
+ wine, or other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious
+ memory of those worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd
+ their country from arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for
+ the mercenary scribler, to which every man contributed according to his
+ zeal for the cause, or the ability of his purse.
+
+ "I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as faithfully
+ as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some persons
+ that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the author
+ of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves' Head
+ Club to be true."
+
+The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given; but
+they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote here.
+They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the serious
+productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically heretical.
+
+EDWARD PEACOCK.
+
+Bottesford Moors.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+_The Calotype Process._--I have made any first essay in the calotype
+process, following DR. DIAMOND'S directions given in "N. & Q.," and using
+Turner's paper, as recommended by him. My success has been quite as great
+as I could expect as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to
+my own want of skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish,
+however, to ask a question as to iodizing the paper. DR. DIAMOND says, lay
+the paper on the solution; then _immediately_ remove it, and lay on the dry
+side on blotting-paper, &c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole
+sheet of paper curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to
+know, therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to
+remain on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on
+removal it will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the
+dry side to pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on
+the solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a great tendency to curl, and
+takes some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows
+it to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the
+glass rod, without floating at all?
+
+Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction, are
+so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given by DR.
+DIAMOND, which are the result of experience, that I am sure he will not
+mind being troubled with a few inquiries relative to them.
+
+C. E. F.
+
+_Hockin's Short Sketch._--Mr. Hockin is so well known as a thoroughly
+practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to the fact of his
+having published a little brochure entitled _How to obtain Positive and
+Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy the latter upon Paper. A
+Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in Photography._ As the question of the
+_alkalinity_ of the nitrate bath is one which has lately been discussed, we
+will give, as a specimen of Mr. Hockin's book, a quotation, showing his
+opinion upon that question:
+
+ "_The sensitizing agent_, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the
+ ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it
+ is thus employed:
+
+ "_The silver or nitrate bath._--Nitrate of silver five drachms,
+ distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion two
+ drachms.
+
+ "Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and
+ filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid
+ with a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being
+ immersed one minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid[3], and test
+ again for a minute; and so on, until a claret red is indicated on the
+ paper. It is necessary to test the bath in a similar manner, frequently
+ adding half a drop to a drop of dilute acid when required. This
+ precaution will prevent the fogging due to alkalinity of the bath, so
+ formidable an obstacle to young hands."
+
+[Footnote 3: "Dilute nitric acid.--Water fifty parts, nitric acid one
+part."]
+
+_Photographic Society's Exhibition._--The Photographic Society opened their
+first Exhibition of {17} Photographs and Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of
+the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk Street, with a _soirée_ on
+Tuesday evening last. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the
+rooms were crowded not only by members of the Society, but by many of the
+most distinguished literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen
+and Prince Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in
+an examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the
+exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it
+afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past year,
+and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater excellence
+might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just one, and
+embodied that given afterwards by the most competent authorities. We have
+not room this week to enter into any details, but can confidently recommend
+our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk Street.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Replies to Minor Queries.
+
+_"Firm was their faith," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 564.).--These lines are to be
+found in a poem called "Morwennæ Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by
+Masters in 1846, with the title of _Echoes from Old Cornwall_, and written
+by the Vicar of Morwenstow. I agree with D. M. in the judgment he has
+announced as to their merits; but hitherto they have been but little
+appreciated by the public. A time will come however, when these and other
+compositions of the author will be better known and more duly valued by the
+English mind.
+
+SAXA.
+
+These lines were written on "the Minster of Morwenna," May, 1840, and
+appeared in the _British Magazine_ under the anonymous name _Procul_. Of
+the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P. M. has quoted the second.
+The second line should be read "wise _of_ heart," and the third "_firm_ and
+trusting hands." With your correspondent, I hope the author's name may be
+discovered.
+
+F. R. R.
+
+_Vellum-cleaning_ (Vol. viii., p.340.).--In the Polytechnic Institution
+there are specimens of old deeds, &c., on vellum and paper, beautifully
+cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner Temple Lane, Temple,
+London.
+
+J. McK.
+
+Shoreham.
+
+_Wooden Tombs_ (Vol. viii., p. 255.).--In the church at Brading, Isle of
+Wight--
+
+ "There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William
+ Oglander's chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the
+ rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of
+ these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour
+ of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and
+ gilt, but now disfigured by coats of dirty white."--Barber's
+ Picturesque Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29.
+
+J. McK.
+
+Shoreham.
+
+_Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263_ (Vol. viii., p. 441.).--In the
+_Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 350.,
+there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against Scotland in the
+year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when speaking of the
+annular eclipse, he says:
+
+ "The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between
+ these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to
+ Dr. Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he
+ found that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and
+ which was annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was
+ twenty-four minutes past one."
+
+These "Observations" contain much curious information; but are deformed by
+the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian writer (at p. 358.
+and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own. Having seen that
+essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of attending to my
+observations, he would not read them, and got into a passion against the
+friend who showed the MS. to me.
+
+J. McK.
+
+Shoreham.
+
+_Lines on Woman_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &c.).--The lines on Woman are,
+I presume, an altered version of those of Barret (Mrs. Barrett Browning?);
+they are the finale of a short poem on Woman; the correct version is the
+following:
+
+ "Peruse the sacred volume, Him who died
+ Her kiss betray'd not, nor her tongue denied;
+ While even the Apostle left Him to His doom,
+ She linger'd round His cross and watch'd His tomb."
+
+I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for
+insertion.
+
+MA. L.
+
+ [Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel
+ passages. The lines quoted by W. V. and those now given by our present
+ correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem.
+ Besides, it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from
+ the poem entitled _Woman_, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see antè, pp.
+ 350. 423.).]
+
+_Satin_ (Vol. vii., p. 551.).--In a note just received by me from Canton,
+an American friend of mine remarks as follows:
+
+ "When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word _satin_
+ (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese origin,
+ and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the English to
+ imitate the Chinese _sz-tün_, have {18} approximated closely to it, and
+ to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the place
+ referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. _satin_, W. _sidan_, &c. &c."
+
+I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote,
+have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my
+Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have shown
+the above extract.
+
+W. T. M.
+
+Hong Kong.
+
+_"Quid facies," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).--
+
+ "BIERVE, _N. Maréchal_, _Marquis de_, a Frenchman well known for his
+ ready wit and great facetiousness. He wrote two plays of considerable
+ merit, _Les Réputations_ and _Le Séducteur_. He died at Spa, 1789, aged
+ 42. He is author of the distich on courtezans:
+
+ 'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante?
+ Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'"
+
+--Lemprière's _Universal Biography_, abridged from the larger work, London,
+1808.
+
+C. FORBES.
+
+Temple.
+
+_Sotades_ (Vol. viii., p. 520.).--Your correspondent CHARLES REED says that
+Sotades was a Roman poet 250 B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma
+tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, according
+to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith's
+_Dictionary of Biography_, Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a
+few fragments of his poems, but none of them are palindromical. The
+authority for his having written so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86.
+2.:
+
+ "Nec retro lego Sotaden cinædum."
+
+ZEUS.
+
+_The Third Part of "Christabel"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.).--Has the
+_Irish Quarterly Review_ any other reason for ascribing this poem to Maginn
+than the common belief which makes him the sole and original Morgan
+Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little value, as, exclusive of some
+pieces under that name which have been avowed by other writers, many of the
+Odoherty papers contain palpable internal evidence of having been written
+by a Scotchman, or at least one very familiar with Scotland, which at that
+time he was not; even the letter accompanying the third part of
+_Christabel_ is dated from Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove
+nothing, the circumstances above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence
+as to the time when Maginn's contributions to _Blackwood_ commenced, seems
+strongly presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most
+distinguished writers in _Blackwood_ are still alive, and could, no doubt,
+clear up this point at once, if so inclined.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Attainment of Majority_ (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).--In my last
+communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to prove
+that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think, A. E. B.
+will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man attains his
+majority commence at six o'clock A.M., or at midnight? We must remember
+that we are dealing with a question of _English_ law; and therefore the
+evidence of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the
+latter mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A. E. B.
+has defended Ben Jonson's use of the former, viz. _Roman_.
+
+In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said:
+
+ "It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at eleven
+ at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his age
+ at one o'clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies, it
+ is a good will, for he was then of age."--_Salkeld_, 44.; _Raymond_,
+ 480, 1096; 1 _Siderfin_, 162.
+
+In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six hours
+before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not regarding
+the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves that the
+day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at midnight.
+
+RUSSELL GOLE.
+
+_Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton_ (Vol. viii., pp. 429. 543.).--In answer
+to J. W. J.'s Query, I beg to state that I have in my possession a codicil
+of Mrs. Conduit's will in her own hand, dated 26th of January, 1737. This
+document refers to some theological tracts by Sir Isaac Newton, in his
+handwriting, which I have. On referring to the pedigree of the Barton
+family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married Catherine Greenwood,
+whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of Messrs. Greenwood,
+army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who married Elizabeth
+Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find no mention of Colonel
+Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been previously connected with that of
+Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of Barton Segrave, having married Jane
+Barton of Brigstock. The writer of this note will be obliged if J. W. J.,
+or any correspondent of "N. & Q.," will inform him if anything is known
+respecting an ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or
+Marchant, which is said to have been an excellent likeness.
+
+S. X.
+
+ [The ivory bust referred to by our correspondent is, we believe, in the
+ British Museum.]
+
+_The fifth Lord Byron_ (Vol. viii., p. 2.).--I cannot but think that MR.
+HASLEDEN'S memory has deceived him as to the "wicked lord" having {19}
+settled his estates upon the marriage of his son; how is this to be
+reconciled with the often published statement, that the marriage of his son
+with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the admiral, and aunt of the late and
+present lords, was made not only without the consent, but in spite of the
+opposition, of the old lord, and that he never forgave his son in
+consequence?
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).--In connexion with a Query which
+was kindly noticed by MR. ALGOR of Sheffield, who did not however
+communicate anything new to me, I would ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq.,
+formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750,
+I find recorded in the Obituary of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for that
+year? I am also desirous to ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton
+of St. Helens, whose daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes,
+Esq., ancestor of the Sikes's of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died
+since 1696. Both Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons
+of Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query
+referred.
+
+E. H. A.
+
+_Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus_ (Vol. viii., p.
+563.).--In answer to MR. GANTILLON'S inquiry for the above translation, I
+beg to state that it will be found appended to an octavo edition of
+Hodgson's poem of _Lady Jane Grey_.
+
+In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work before
+me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which BALLIOLENSIS
+inquiries. The justly admired translation of _Edwin and Angelina_, to which
+the latter refers, was by Hodgson's too early lost friend Lloyd. The
+splendid pentameter is slightly misquoted by BALLIOLENSIS. It is not--
+
+ "Poscimus in _terris_ pauca, nec illa diù."
+
+but--
+
+ "Poscimus in _vitâ_," &c.
+
+THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER.
+
+Wymeswold, Loughborough.
+
+_Wylcotes' Brass_ (Vol. viii., p. 494.).--I should hardly have supposed
+that any difficulty could exist in explaining the inscription:
+
+ "In · on · is · all."
+
+To me it appears self-evident that it must be--
+
+ "In one (God) is my all."
+
+H. C. C.
+
+_Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c_. (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--I would
+refer J. B. WHITBORNE to _The Antiquities of Berkshire_ (so miscalled), by
+Elias Ashmole; where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has
+given the inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing _and legible in his
+time_. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was ever
+of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy
+Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7 the
+manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the
+brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566,
+ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not
+1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly
+given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles,
+threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made by
+Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, natural
+son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no crest nor
+motto.
+
+H. C. C.
+
+_The Keate Family_ (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)--Should the Query of
+G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr. Burke's
+_Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_ relating to the Keate family,
+as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be able, on
+application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars which are
+not noticed in Mr. Burke's works.
+
+H. C. C.
+
+_Sir Charles Cotterell_ (Vol viii., p. 564.).--Sir Charles Cotterell, the
+translator of _Cassandra_, died in 1687. (See Fuller's _Worthies_, by
+Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.)
+
+[Greek: Halieus].
+
+Dublin.
+
+_Huc's Travels_ (Vol. viii., p. 516.).--Not having seen the _Gardener's
+Chronicle_, in which C. W. B. says the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in
+Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure fabrication, concocted by some
+Parisian _littérateur_, I cannot know what degree of credit, if any, is to
+be given to such a statement. All I wish to communicate at present for the
+information of your Querist C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account
+and abstract of Messrs. Huc and Gabet's _Travels_ in one of the ablest and
+best conducted French reviews, _La Revue des Deux Mondes_; in which not the
+least suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed
+as to the genuineness of these _Travels_. Mr. Princep, also, in his work on
+Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and avails himself
+extensively of the information contained in them with reference to
+Buddhism, &c.
+
+Should the writer in the _Gardener's Chronicle_ have it in his power to
+_prove_ the _Travels_ to be a fabrication, he will confer a benefit on the
+world of letters by unmasking the fabricator.
+
+J. M.
+
+Oxford.
+
+_Pictures at Hampton Court Palace_ (Vol. viii., p. 538.).--In reply to
+[Phi].'s question when the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King {20}
+George III., after the Prince of Wales assumed the command of that
+regiment, I beg to state that the Prince entered the army as
+brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the regiment received the title of "The
+Prince of Wales's own Regiment of Light Dragoons" on Michaelmas Day, 1783:
+that the regiment was stationed in the south of England and in the vicinity
+of London for many years, from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George
+III. repeatedly reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family.
+That the Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in
+1793, and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That
+the regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799;
+and the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty's
+orders to convey his Majesty's approbation of its excellent appearance and
+performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted in
+1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free from
+errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852.
+
+M. A.
+
+Pembroke College, Oxon.
+
+_John Waugh_ (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).--Does KARLEOLENSIS know
+whether John Waugh, son of Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to
+whom?
+
+Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and
+thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of
+Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire.
+
+Exeter.
+
+_Daughters taking their Mothers' Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--When
+BURIENSIS asks for instances of this, and mentions "Alicia, daughter of
+Ada," as an example, is he not mistaking, or following some one else who
+has mistaken, the _gender_ of the parent's name? _Alicia fil. Adæ_ would be
+rendered "Alice Fitz-Adam," unless there be anything in the context to
+determine the gender otherwise.
+
+J. SANSOM.
+
+"_Service is no Inheritance_" (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--This proverbial
+saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under which the
+lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before admitting the
+heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase. On which
+occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or heir,
+"fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;" the relief being generally a
+year's rent or service.
+
+ANON.
+
+_Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver_ (Vol. viii., p. 340.).--If your
+correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the anecdote here alluded
+to, I think I can confidently refer him to any biographical notice of
+Grindling Gibbons--to whom the story of the "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons
+was recommended to Sir Christopher by Evelyn, I think; but not having "made
+a note of it," I am not sure that it is to be found in his _Diary_.[4] If
+there be any monograph Life of Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found
+there.
+
+M. (2)
+
+[Footnote 4: See Evelyn's _Diary_, vol. ii. pp. 53, 54., edition
+1850.--ED.]
+
+_Souvaroff's Despatch_ (Vol. viii., p. 490).--Souvaroff's doggerel despatch
+from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual, misspelt and
+mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have never yet seen in
+English, a correct version of it:
+
+ "Slava Bogou, slava Vam;
+ Krépost vziala, ee ya tam."
+
+ "Glory to God, glory to You,
+ The fortress is taken, and I am there."
+
+DMITRI ANDRÉEF.
+
+_Detached Church Towers_ (Vol. viii., p. 63.).--In the lists I have seen no
+mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church, which stands at a
+distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the church.
+
+W. B. D.
+
+Lynn.
+
+_Queen Anne's Motto_ (Vol. viii., p. 174.).--The Historical Society of
+Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms, painted on wood
+in the time of Queen Anne, having "Anna R." at the top, and the motto
+_Semper eadem_ on the scroll below. It probably was in one of the
+Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the Revolution.
+
+UNEDA.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+_Lawyers' Bags_ (Vol. vii. _passim_).--The communication of MR. KERSLEY, in
+p. 557., although it does not support the inference which COL. LANDMAN
+draws, that the colour of lawyers' bags was changed in consequence of the
+unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen Caroline, seems to
+show that _green_ was at one time the colour of those professional pouches.
+The question still remains, when and on what occasion it was discontinued;
+and when the purple, and when the crimson, were introduced?
+
+When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior barrister
+presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one had been
+presented to him by a king's counsel; who, when a junior was advancing in
+practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his increase of
+business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his papers. It was then
+a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a junior was rising {21} in
+his profession. I do not know whether the same custom prevailed in the
+other courts.
+
+CAUSIDICUS.
+
+In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The custom
+has declined of late years among the members of the legal profession, and
+it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers, who thus carry
+their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now the badge of a
+cordwainer in this city.
+
+[Old English W].
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+_Bust of Luther_ (Vol. viii., p. 335.).--MR. J. G. FITCH asks for
+information respecting a bust of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall
+of a house, in the Dom Platz at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned,
+through a German acquaintance, who has resided the greater part of his life
+in that city, that the effigy was erected to commemorate the event of
+Luther's having, during a short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot;
+and that the words surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He
+adds that Luther at no period of his life "lived for some years" at
+Frankfort, as stated by MR. FITCH.
+
+ALFRED SMITH.
+
+_Grammar in relation to Logic_ (Vol. viii., pp. 514. 629.).--H. C. K.'s
+remarks are of course indisputable. But it is a mistake to suppose that
+they answer my Query. In fact, had your correspondent taken the trouble to
+consider the meaning of my Query, he could not have failed to perceive that
+the explanation I there gave of the function of the conjunction _in logic_,
+is the same as his. My Query had sole reference _to grammar_. I would also
+respectfully suggest that anonymous correspondents should not impute
+"superficial views," or any other disagreeable thing, to those who stand
+_confessed_, without abandoning the pseudonym.
+
+C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7,
+1854, by Various
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854
+ A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
+ Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
+
+Author: Various
+
+Other: George Bell
+
+Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27614]
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+<p><!-- Page 1 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page1"></a>{1}</span></p>
+
+<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1>
+
+<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2>
+
+<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>&mdash;<span class="sc">Captain Cuttle</span>.</h3>
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+ <td style="text-align:left; width:25%">
+ <p><b><span class="sc">Vol.</span> IX.&mdash;No. 219.</b></p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:center; width:50%">
+ <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, January 7. 1854</span></b></p>
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+ <p><b>Price Fourpence.<br />Stamped Edition 5<i>d.</i></b></p>
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+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
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+ <td style="text-align:left; width:94%">
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right; width:5%">
+ <p>Page</p>
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+ <p>Our Ninth Volume</p>
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+ <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:&mdash;</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page3">3</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page5">5</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, <span
+ class="scac">A.D.</span> 1650-51, by John Bruce</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page6">6</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page7">7</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page8">8</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Minor Notes</span>:&mdash;Grammars, &amp;c. for
+ Public Schools&mdash;"To captivate"&mdash;Bohn's Edition of Matthew
+ of Westminster&mdash;French Season Rhymes and Weather
+ Rhymes&mdash;Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page8">8</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Queries</span>:&mdash;</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page9">9</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries</span>:&mdash;Farrant's
+ Anthem&mdash;Ascension Day Custom&mdash;Sawbridge and Knight's
+ Numismatic Collections&mdash;"The spire whose silent finger points to
+ heaven."&mdash;Lord Fairfax&mdash;Tailless
+ Cats&mdash;Saltcellar&mdash;Arms and Motto granted to Col. William
+ Carlos&mdash;Naval Atrocities&mdash;Turlehydes&mdash;Foreign Orders:
+ Queen of Bohemia&mdash;Pickard Family&mdash;Irish
+ Chieftains&mdash;General Braddock</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page9">9</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries with Answers</span>:&mdash;Lawless
+ Court, Rochford, Essex&mdash;Motto on old Damask&mdash;Explanation of
+ the Word "Miser"&mdash;"Acis and
+ Galatea"&mdash;Birm-bank&mdash;General Thomas Gage</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page11">11</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Replies</span>:&mdash;</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. Dr. Maitland</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page12">12</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John Macray</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page13">13</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Celtic and Latin Languages</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page14">14</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Geometrical Curiosity, by Professor De Morgan</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page14">14</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>The Black-guard, by P. Cunningham</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page15">15</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>The Calves' Head Club, by Edward Peacock</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page15">15</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Photographic Correspondence</span>:&mdash; The
+ Calotype Process&mdash;Hockin's Short Sketch&mdash;Photographic
+ Society's Exhibition</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page16">16</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Replies to Minor Queries</span>:&mdash;"Firm was
+ their faith," &amp;c.&mdash;Vellum-cleaning&mdash;Wooden
+ Tombs&mdash;Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263&mdash;Lines on
+ Woman&mdash;Satin&mdash;"Quid facies,"
+ &amp;c.&mdash;Sotades&mdash;The Third Part of
+ "Christabel"&mdash;Attainment of Majority&mdash;Lord Halifax and Mrs.
+ C. Barton&mdash;The fifth Lord Byron&mdash;Burton
+ Family&mdash;Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus,
+ &amp;c.</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page17">17</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous</span>:&mdash;</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Notes on books, &amp;c.</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page21">21</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Books and Odd Volumes wanted</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page21">21</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align:left">
+ <p>Notices to Correspondents</p>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align:right">
+ <p><a href="#page22">22</a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>THE SACRED GARLAND, or THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY DELIGHT.</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
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+ </div>
+ </div>
+
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+
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+ <div class="stanza">
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+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
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+ <p>PHYSIOGNOMY OF INSANITY.&mdash;A Series of Photographic Portraits from
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+
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+
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+
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+<p><!-- Page 3 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page3"></a>{3}</span></p>
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY</i> 7, 1854.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>OUR NINTH VOLUME.</h3>
+
+ <p>The commencement of a New Year, and of our Ninth Volume, imposes upon
+ Us the pleasant duty of wishing many happy returns of the season to all
+ our Friends, Correspondents, and Readers.</p>
+
+ <p>Those of the latter class, who have so earnestly impressed upon Us the
+ propriety and advisableness of placing our Advertisements on the outside
+ leaves of each Number, will see that their wishes have at length been
+ complied with. We trust they will be pleased with this change, and
+ receive it as a proof of our readiness to attend to every reasonable
+ suggestion for the improve of "<span class="sc">Notes and
+ Queries</span>." We can assure them that it is no less our desire to do
+ so than our interest.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Notes.</h2>
+
+<h3>A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM.</h3>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"<i>Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque
+ trouvaille à faire, même dans ce qui a été le plus
+ visité</i>.&mdash;Henry <span class="sc">Patin.</span></p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its
+ bibliographic peculiarities&mdash;which may almost pass for romance.</p>
+
+ <p>It is a <i>Scottish</i> work with regard to the family connexion of
+ its author: it is an <i>Irish</i> work with regard to the place of his
+ nativity. It is an <i>English</i> work as to the scenes which it
+ represents; a <i>French</i> work as to the language in which it was
+ written; a <i>Dutch</i> work as to the country in which it came to light.
+ It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since borne the name of its
+ author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it has been twice
+ printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as fiction: it
+ is now believed to be history.</p>
+
+ <p>But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must
+ not add to the number. The work to which I allude is the <i>Mémoires du
+ comte de Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work
+ remind me of my <i>portefeuille Hamiltonien</i>, and impose on me the
+ task of a partial transcription of its contents.</p>
+
+ <p>Of the numerous editions of the <i>Mémoires de Grammont</i> as
+ recorded by Brunet, Renouard, or Quérard, or left unrecorded by those
+ celebrated bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to
+ the critical examination of future editors:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>1. "<i>Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant
+ particuliérement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le
+ regne de Charles II.</i> A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713.
+ 12<sup>o</sup>, pp. 4 + 428.</p>
+
+ <p>"<span class="sc">Avis du libraire.</span>&mdash;Il seroit inutile de
+ recommander ici la lecture des mémoires qui composent ce volume: le titre
+ seul de <i>Mémoires du comte de Grammont</i> réveillera sans doute la
+ curiosité du public pour un homme qui lui est déjà si connu d'ailleurs,
+ tant par la réputation qu'il a sçu se faire, que par les différens
+ portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs
+ ouvrages; et l'on ne doute nullement qu'il ne reçoive, avec beaucoup de
+ plaisir, un livre, dans lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il
+ en a bien voulu raconter lui-même à celui qui a pris la peine de dresser
+ ces mémoires.</p>
+
+ <p>"Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent
+ particuliè[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le
+ regne de Charles II; et, comme on y découvre quantité de choses, qui ont
+ été tenues cachées jusqu'à présent, et qui font voir jusqu'à quel excès
+ on a porté le déréglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le morceau le
+ moins intéressant de ces mémoires.</p>
+
+ <p>"On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a reçue de Paris:
+ et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a été
+ possible."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>The above is the <i>first</i> edition. The imprint is fictitious. It
+ was much used by the Elzévirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second
+ edition, with the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de
+ Sardière, No. 939.). The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716.
+ The <i>avis</i> is omitted in that edition, and in all the later
+ impressions which I have seen. Its importance as a history of the
+ publication induces one to revive it. There is also an edition printed at
+ Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.); and another at La Haye in
+ 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits the edition of 1713.
+ Renouard and Quérard notice it too briefly.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>2. "<i>Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
+ Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentée d'un discours préliminaire mêlé de
+ prose et de vers, par le même auteur, et d'un avertissement contenant
+ quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton.</i> A Paris, chez la
+ veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la croix d'or. 1746." 12<sup>o</sup>. pp.
+ 24 + 408.</p>
+
+ <p>"<span class="sc">Avertissement.</span> Le public a fait un accueil si
+ favorable à ces <i>Mémoires</i>, que nous avons crû devoir en procurer
+ une nouvelle edition. Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont,
+ très-piquantes par elles-mêmes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse
+ d'Angleterre sous le regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs écrits
+ d'une maniére si vive et si ingénieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de
+ plaire infiniment, quand la matiére en seroit moins interessante.</p>
+
+ <p>"Le héros de ces <i>Mémoires</i> a trouvé dans le comte Hamilton un
+ historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la
+ même main à qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappés au même
+ coin.</p>
+
+ <p>"Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mêlé de prose et de
+ vers, où l'on exagére la difficulté qu'il y a de bien répresenter le
+ comte de Grammont. On reconnoîtra facilement que ce discours est du même
+ auteur que les <i>Mémoires</i>, et qu'il devoit naturellement en <!--
+ Page 4 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page4"></a>{4}</span>orner le
+ frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en apprécier le
+ mérite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un goût sûr et délicat
+ le comparent au <i>Voyage de Chapelle</i>, et qu'ils y trouvent les mêmes
+ graces, le même naturel et la même légereté.</p>
+
+ <p>"Il ne nous reste plus qu'à dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-même,
+ auteur de ces mémoires, et du discours qui les précede.</p>
+
+ <p>"Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, étoit de l'ancienne et illustre
+ maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il nâquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pére le
+ chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi
+ duc de Châtelleraud en France.</p>
+
+ <p>"Sa mére étoit madame Marie Butler, s&oelig;ur du duc d'Ormond,
+ viceroi d'Irlande, et grand maître de la maison du roi Charles.</p>
+
+ <p>"Dans les révolutions qui arrivérent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent
+ le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frére qui passérent en France. Ils y
+ amenérent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit à peine que de naître.</p>
+
+ <p>"Lorsque le roi fut rétabli sur son trône, il ramena en Angleterre les
+ jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les mémoires de Grammont combien
+ cette cour étoit brillante; la curiosité y attira le comte de Grammont.
+ Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas à sentir le pouvoir de
+ ses charmes, il l'épousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'<i>Antoine</i>
+ avoit pour sa s&oelig;ur, qui l'engagea à faire plusieurs voyages en
+ France, où il étoit élevé, et où il a passé une partie de sa vie.</p>
+
+ <p>"M. Antoine Hamilton étant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en
+ Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ébranler ni sa religion, ni la
+ fidélité qu'il devoit à son roi.</p>
+
+ <p>"Le roi Jaques étant monté sur le trône, il lui donna un regiment
+ d'infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince,
+ ayant été obligé de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la
+ famille royale en France. C'est-là et pendant le long séjour qu'il y a
+ fait, qu'il a composé les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de
+ réputation. Il mourut à S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands
+ sentimens de piété, et après avoir reçu les derniers sacremens. Il étoit
+ âgé alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a mérité les regrets de tous ceux qui
+ avoient le bonheur de le connoître. Né sérieux, il avoit dans l'esprit
+ tous les agrémens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de louanges, à
+ ces agrémens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit toutes les
+ qualitéz du c&oelig;ur."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>If the above <i>avertissement</i> first appeared in 1746, which I have
+ much reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The
+ biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later
+ memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moréri of 1759, we have it almost
+ <i>verbatim</i>, but taken from the <i>&OElig;uvres du comte Antoine
+ Hamilton</i>, 1749. Neither Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Quérard notice the
+ edition of 1746. The copy which I have examined has the book-plate
+ G.&nbsp;III.&nbsp;R.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>3. "<i>Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton</i>.
+ 1760." [De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée, 1760.] 12<sup>o</sup>. I.
+ partie, pp. 36 + 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>This edition has the same <i>avertissement</i> as that of 1746. The
+ imprint is <span class="scac">M.DCC.LX</span>. The type resembles our
+ small pica, and the paper has the water-mark <i>Auvergne</i> 1749. At the
+ end of the second part appears, <i>De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue
+ Pavée</i>, 1760. This must be M. François Didot of Paris. I find the same
+ colophon in the <i>Bibliographie instructive</i>, 1763-8. v. 631. This
+ very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic trio!</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>4. "<i>Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
+ Hamilton</i>. <i>Nouvelle edition</i>, <i>augmentée de notes et
+ d'eclaircissemens necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole</i>. Imprimée à
+ Strawberry-Hill. 1772." 4<sup>o</sup>, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits.</p>
+
+ <p>[Dedication.] "À madame....</p>
+
+ <p>"L'éditeur vous consacre cette édition, comme un monument de son
+ amitié, de son admiration, et de son respect; à vous, dont les grâces,
+ l'esprit, et le goût retracent au siècle présent le siècle de Louis
+ quatorze et les agrémens de l'auteur de ces mémoires."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>Such are the inscriptions on the <i>Strawberry-Hill gem</i>. Much has
+ been said of its brilliancy&mdash;and so, for the sake of novelty, I
+ shall rather dwell on its flaws.</p>
+
+ <p>The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at
+ Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of
+ which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions&mdash;now
+ for its flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had
+ to insert <i>eight</i> accents to make decent French of it! The
+ <i>avis</i> is a mere medley of fragments: I could not ask a compositor
+ to set it up! The <i>avertissement</i> is copied, without a word of
+ intimation to that effect, from the edition of 1746. The notes to the
+ <i>épître</i> are also copied from that edition, except <i>L'abbé de
+ Chaulieu</i>; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same
+ source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in
+ part taken from an erroneous printed <i>Key</i>. Where are the
+ <i>éclaircissements</i>? I find none except a list of proper
+ names&mdash;of which about one-third part is omitted!</p>
+
+ <p>In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the <i>Manuel du
+ libraire</i>, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the <i>avis</i>
+ prefixed to the <i>&OElig;uvres du comte Antoine Hamilton</i>, 1812; in
+ quoting Quérard, to <i>La France littéraire</i>, 1827-39. The other
+ references are to sale catalogues. The titles of the books described, and
+ the extracts, are given <i>literatim</i>, and, except as above noted,
+ with the same accentuation and punctuation.</p>
+
+ <p>To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French
+ text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made.
+ That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque!</p>
+
+ <p>The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of
+ the editions of 1713 and 1746&mdash;the rectification of the names of
+ persons <!-- Page 5 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page5"></a>{5}</span>and places&mdash;a revision of the
+ punctuation&mdash;and a strict conformity, as to general orthography and
+ accentuation, with the <i>Dictionnaire de l'Académie française</i>, as
+ edited in 1835. The substance of the <i>avis</i> of 1713 might be stated
+ in a preface; and the <i>avertissement</i> of 1746, a clever composition,
+ would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt
+ its value may consult the <i>Grand dictionnaire historique</i>, and the
+ <i>Biographie universelle</i>. As one hundred and sixty persons are
+ noticed in the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would
+ require much research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave
+ would, however, be very serviceable&mdash;more so, I conceive, than the
+ printed notes of M. Horace Walpole.</p>
+
+ <p>As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I
+ shall conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid
+ the <i>jolie édition</i> printed at Paris by F.&nbsp;A. Didot, <i>par ordre de
+ monseigneur le comte d'Artois</i>, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen
+ of editorship. Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a
+ piratical pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible
+ books; the portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be
+ chiefly copies of prints&mdash;not <i>d'après des tableaux originaux</i>.
+ The most desirable editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772,
+ as a <i>curiosity</i>; 3. That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812,
+ 18<sup>o</sup>. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by M. Renouard in 1812,
+ 8<sup>o</sup>. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms part of the
+ <i>&OElig;uvres du comte Antoine Hamilton</i> in 3 vols. It seldom occurs
+ for sale.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Bolton Corney</span>.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>THE "ANCREN RIWLE."</h3>
+
+ <p>The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise
+ on the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society,
+ under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable,
+ and both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who
+ are interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in
+ the subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably
+ executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks
+ on the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton
+ is unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen
+ College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original
+ vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by
+ permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and
+ after reading and making extracts from it<a name="footnotetag1"
+ href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, I came to the same conclusion as
+ Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the
+ internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts
+ containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that
+ Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original
+ author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have
+ not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident
+ that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop
+ Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the
+ oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made
+ in it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the
+ printed edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been,
+ with advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are
+ passed over. Thus, at p. 8., for <i>unweote</i> the second hand has
+ <i>congoun</i>; at p. 62., for <i>herigen</i> it has <i>preisen</i>; at
+ p. 90., for <i>on cheafle</i>, it reads <i>o muþe</i>, &amp;c. The
+ original hand has also some remarkable variations, which would cause a
+ suspicion that this was the first draft of the author's work. Thus, at p.
+ 12., for <i>scandle</i>, the first hand has <i>schonde</i>; at p. 62.,
+ for <i>baldeliche</i> it reads <i>bradliche</i>; at p. 88., for <i>nout
+ for</i>, it has <i>anonden</i>, and the second hand <i>aneust</i>; at p.
+ 90., for <i>sunderliche</i> it reads <i>sunderlepes</i>, &amp;c. All
+ these, and many other curious variations, are not noticed in the printed
+ edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written, in a hand of the time of
+ Edward I., as follows: "<i>Datum abbatie et conventui de Leghe per Dame
+ M. de Clare.</i>" The lady here referred to was doubtless Maud de Clare,
+ second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford and Gloucester, who, at
+ the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known to have changed the
+ Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an abbess and nuns of
+ the same order; and it was probably at the same period she bestowed this
+ volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop Poore, who died
+ in 1237, might have been the original author of the <i>Ancren Riwle</i>,
+ is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error as to
+ Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to
+ Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the
+ fly-leaves of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their
+ respective contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is
+ more blamable, and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but
+ (as remarked by Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of
+ the work. The real fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged
+ Latin version of the seven books of the <i>Riwle</i> now preserved in
+ Magdalen College, and this supposition may well enough be reconciled with
+ the words of Leland, who says of him,&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"Edidit inter cætera, libros <i>septem</i> de Vita Solitaria, <!--
+ Page 6 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page6"></a>{6}</span>ad Virgines
+ Tarentinas, Duriæ cultrices."&mdash;<i>Comment</i>., p. 316.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian
+ collection (Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been
+ recovered from the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of
+ 1731. I am happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the
+ manuscript marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of
+ the <i>Riwle</i>, made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing
+ with the vernacular text), has been entirely restored, except that the
+ top margins of the leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This
+ damage has, unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the
+ treatise, and the title given us by Smith is copied partly from James's
+ note. This copy of the French version appears to be unique, and is the
+ more interesting from its having a note at the end (now half obliterated
+ by the fire), stating that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of
+ Gloucester, whose motto is also added, "<i>Plesance. M [mil]. en vn</i>."
+ The personage in question was Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun,
+ Earl of Hereford, and wife of Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as
+ a nun in the convent at Barking in 1399. Is any other instance known of
+ the use of this motto? Before I conclude these brief remarks, I may
+ mention a <i>fifth</i> copy of the <i>Ancren Riwle</i>, which has escaped
+ the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the enormous folio manuscript
+ of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon MS., in the Bodleian
+ Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and occurs at pp.
+ 371<sup>b</sup>.&mdash;392. In the table of contents prefixed to this
+ volume it is entitled "The Roule of Reclous;" and although the
+ phraseology is somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS.
+ Cleopatra C. vi, than with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton's edition
+ is printed. This copy is not complete, some leaves having been cut out in
+ the sixth book, and the scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed
+ edition.</p>
+
+ <p>It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task
+ of editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same
+ age as the <i>Ancren Riwle</i>, still existing in various manuscripts.
+ One of the homilies, entitled "Sawles Warde," in the Bodley MS. 34.,
+ Cott. MS. Titus D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17<span
+ class="scac">A</span>. xxvii., is very curious, and well deserves to be
+ printed.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">F. Madden</span>.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">British Museum.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a
+ href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+ <p>At p. viii. of Mr. Morton's preface, for "yerze" (eye), my extracts
+ read "yze."</p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY,
+A.D. 1650-51.</h3>
+
+ <p>At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant
+ children?" is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds,
+ it may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order
+ addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which
+ applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that
+ some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those
+ with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment
+ between vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of
+ observation.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+<p class="cenhead">"<span class="sc">By the Mayor</span>.</p>
+
+ <p>"Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to
+ put in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants,
+ and passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great
+ scandall and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These
+ are therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call
+ before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to
+ charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty
+ of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant
+ that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end the
+ said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the several
+ persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are further
+ to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not fit to
+ work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where they
+ dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging, shal
+ give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she were
+ taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. <i>And for children
+ under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give an account
+ of their parents, the parish where they are found are to provide for
+ them; and for those which shall bee found lying under stalls, having no
+ habitation or parents (from five to nine years old), are to be sent to
+ the Wardrobe House</i><a name="footnotetag2"
+ href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, <i>to be provided for by the
+ corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be sent
+ to Bridewel.</i> And for men or women who are able to work and goe
+ begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be passed
+ to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken againe, they
+ are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according to the
+ discretion of the governours. <i>And for those persons that shal be found
+ to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking, those children
+ are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel, and the persons so
+ hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed away, or kept at work
+ there, according to the governour's discretion.</i> And for al other
+ vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to be forthwith sent
+ down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected, according to the statute
+ laws of this commonwealth, except before excepted; and the president and
+ governours of Bridewel are hereby desired to meet twice every week to see
+ to the execution of this Precept. <i>And the steward of the workehouse
+ called the Wardrobe, is <!-- Page 7 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page7"></a>{7}</span>authorised to receive into that house such
+ children as are of the age between five and nine, as is before specified
+ and limited</i>; and the said steward is from time to time to acquaint
+ the corporation for the poor, what persons are brought in, to the end
+ they may bee provided for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January,
+ 1650.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Sadler</span>."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Bruce</span>.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a
+ href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+ <p>I suppose this to have been the ancient building known by the name of
+ The Royal, or The Tower Royal, used for a time as the Queen's Wardrobe.
+ It will be seen that it was occupied in 1650 as a workhouse.</p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.</h3>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>Sir,</p>
+
+ <p>I send you, as a New Year's Gift for your "N. &amp; Q.," transcripts
+ of half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose
+ correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve,</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <div class="contents">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Yours faithfully,</p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Henry Ellis</span>.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="address">British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853.</p>
+
+<h3>I.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>Dean Swift to</i> * * * * * * *.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. <i>Orig</i>.]</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p class="author">Belcamp, Mar. 14th.</p>
+
+ <p>Sir,</p>
+
+ <p>Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his
+ house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a
+ plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him in
+ the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks to
+ cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no longer. Mr.
+ Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object to be
+ received into Dr. Stephen's Hospital. The boy tells his story naturally,
+ and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him curable, and it
+ be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you will receive
+ him.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <div class="contents">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>I am, Sir,</p>
+ <p class="i1">Your most humble Servt.</p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Jonath. Swift</span>.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<h3>II.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. <i>Orig</i>.]</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p class="author">Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718].</p>
+
+ <p>Worthy Sir</p>
+
+ <p>I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for
+ me she may be very easy: tho' I could wish for the sake of the University
+ (tho' I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation) that you could
+ recover the Book, or at least could find where it is lodged, that Mr.
+ Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume, may be done.</p>
+
+ <p>If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a
+ great discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and
+ began to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of
+ Ely's Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been
+ printed by Guttenberg; for tho' it be printed at Ments, yet there is no
+ name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust's Tullie's
+ Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the first on
+ vellum, the other on paper.</p>
+
+ <p>May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as
+ Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of
+ Edw. the Sixth's first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether either
+ of them be printed by Grafton, the King's Printer? I have seen four or
+ five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by Grafton,
+ except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a great Rarity,
+ if it be likewise wanting to my Lord's Collection. It varies from all the
+ other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest, I think, in 1549. One
+ reason of my enquiry is, because I want the Title, for the date is at the
+ end of the Book, and indeed twice; both on the end of the Communion
+ Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your pardon for so small an enquiry,
+ whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg and Nic. Jenson. My business
+ consists much in trifles.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <div class="contents">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>I am, Sir,</p>
+ <p class="i1">Your most ob. humble</p>
+ <p class="i2">Servant,</p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Tho. Baker</span>.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the<br />
+ Riding Hood Shop, the corner<br />
+ of Chandois and Bedford Streets,<br />
+ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Covent Garden,<br />
+ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
+ London.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>A note in Wanley's hand says, "Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small
+ scores."</p>
+
+<h3>III.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to
+the Rev. Mr. Amory of Taunton, dated Dunsland,
+March</i> 7, 1731.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.]</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation
+ to Charles the Second's Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of the
+ Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly transacted
+ that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it were sent
+ him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after the thing was
+ finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these Letters and other
+ papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his History, and which
+ were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was chancellor, told Morrice's
+ Grandson that if he would file a Bill in Chancery, he would endeavour to
+ get them; but young Morrice having deserted the Whig Interest, was <!--
+ Page 8 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page8"></a>{8}</span>prevailed
+ upon to let it drop. This I know to be fact, for I had it not only from
+ the last-mentioned Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son
+ of the Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity
+ of searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one
+ time or other I design to publish together with the account of that
+ affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him say
+ that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the least
+ of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the Nation,
+ had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke of York)
+ to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to their
+ Infamy.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.</h3>
+
+ <p>On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village
+ and church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested
+ by the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect
+ position on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They
+ proved to be those which once had covered and protected the grave of the
+ good Archbishop Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that
+ parish, and that of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it
+ appeared that their remains had been deposited within a small chapel on
+ the south side of the chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family,
+ of Broadhurst, in the parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither
+ in 1674, and resided with his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward
+ Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly
+ mentioned by the biographers of Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an
+ ancient mansion, the residence formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated
+ about a mile north of the village of Horsted. There it was that Leighton
+ made his will, in February, 1683; but his death occurred, it will be
+ remembered, in singular accordance with his desire often expressed, at an
+ inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London.</p>
+
+ <p>The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an
+ arch now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a
+ school-room; more recently, however, either through its becoming out of
+ repair, or from some other cause, the little structure was demolished.
+ The large slabs which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his
+ brother were taken up and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now
+ covers the space thus thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to
+ mark the position of the graves, which in all probability, ere many years
+ elapse, will be disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the
+ ashes of Leighton scattered to the winds.</p>
+
+ <p>In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies
+ of bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so
+ well carried out by <span class="sc">Mr. Markland</span> in regard to the
+ grave of Bishop Ken, shall we not make an effort to preserve from
+ desecration and oblivion the resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton
+ for his learning and piety, so worthy to be held in honoured remembrance
+ for his high principles and his consistent conduct in an evil age?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Albert Way</span>.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Minor Notes.</h2>
+
+ <p><i>Grammars, &amp;c. for Public Schools.</i>&mdash;Would it not be
+ desirable for some correspondents of "N. &amp; Q." to furnish information
+ respecting grammars, classics, and other works which have been written
+ for the various public schools? Such information might be useful to book
+ collectors; and would also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose
+ learned masters have prepared such books. My contribution to the list is
+ small: but I remember a valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev.
+ &mdash;&mdash; Hook, formerly head master of the College School at
+ Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as also a peculiar English
+ grammar prepared by the Rev. R.&nbsp;S. Skillern, master of St. Mary de Crypt
+ School, in the same place, for the use of that school. I also possess a
+ copy (1640) of the <i>Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia</i>, for the use of
+ Abingdon School, and <i>Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of the
+ Hebrews</i> (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written
+ after he ceased to be master of the schools.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">P. H. Fisher</span>.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Stroud.</p>
+
+ <p>"<i>To captivate.</i>"&mdash;Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the
+ Americans (January 9th, 1819), says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"They sometimes, I see, use the word <i>captivate</i> thus: 'Five or
+ six ships captivated,' 'Five or six ships captivated.'"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>Originally, the words <i>to captivate</i> were synonymous with <i>to
+ capture</i>, and the expression was used with reference to warlike
+ operations. To captivate the affections was a secondary use of the
+ phrase. The word is used in the original sense in many old English books.
+ It is not used so now in the United States.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Uneda</span>.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster.</i>&mdash;Under the year
+ <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 782, the translator informs us that
+ "Hirenes and <i>his</i> son Constantine became emperors." Such an emperor
+ is not to be found <!-- Page 9 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page9"></a>{9}</span>in the annals of Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge,
+ who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon, had referred to him on this
+ occasion, he would probably have found that the Empress Irene, a name
+ dear to the reverencers of images, was the person meant. The original
+ Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this empress, who is
+ considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the deposition and
+ blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily
+ forgotten.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden</span>.</p>
+
+ <p><i>French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.&mdash;</i></p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"A la Saint-Antoine (17th January)</p>
+ <p>Les jours croissent le repas d'un moine."</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"A la Saint-Barnabé (11th June)</p>
+ <p>La faux au pré."</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"A la Sainte-Cathérine (25th November)</p>
+ <p>Tout bois prend racine."</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Passé la Saint-Clément (23rd November)</p>
+ <p>Ne sème plus froment."</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Si l'hiver va droit son chemin,</p>
+ <p>Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.)</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"S'il n'arreste tant ne quant,</p>
+ <p>Vous l'aurez à la Saint-Clément." (23rd Nov.)</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombrée,</p>
+ <p>Vous l'aurez à la Saint-André." (30th Nov.)</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ceyrep</span>.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.&mdash;</i></p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus</p>
+ <p>Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua.</p>
+ <p>Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus.</p>
+ <p>Cælum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris.</p>
+ <p class="i2">Ob<sup>t</sup>. 27 Mar. 1624. Æt. 77."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole,</p>
+ <p>Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul;</p>
+ <p>But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name,</p>
+ <p>Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame.</p>
+ <p>A priest of priests, inferior was to none,</p>
+ <p>Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run.</p>
+ <p>Thus ends the record of this pious man;</p>
+ <p>Go and do likewise, reader, if you can."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author">C. K. P.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Newport, Essex.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Queries.</h2>
+
+<h3>DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE.</h3>
+
+ <p>In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund
+ Burke," which appeared in the <i>Athenæum</i> of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th
+ (and to which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. &amp;
+ Q." as have not yet seen it), the writer observes:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to
+ infer from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or
+ document of any kind&mdash;except a mysterious fragment of one
+ letter&mdash;relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long
+ after Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from
+ parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother,
+ or brother to sister."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference
+ drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the
+ grounds which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in
+ writings is to call attention to a source from which, if any such letters
+ exist, they may yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of
+ professed collectors of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be
+ conceived that the destroyer of these materials for the history of the
+ Burkes, be he who he may, can have got <i>all</i> the family
+ correspondence into his possession. On the other, it is far from
+ improbable that in some of the collections to which I have alluded, some
+ letters, notes, or documents may exist, treasured by the possessors as
+ mere autographs; but which might, if given to the world, serve to solve
+ many of those mysteries which envelope the early history of Edmund Burke.
+ The discovery of documents of such a character seems to be the special
+ province of "N. &amp; Q.," and I hope, therefore, although this letter
+ has extended far beyond the limits I originally contemplated, you will
+ insert it, and so permit me to put this Query to autograph collectors,
+ "Have you any documents illustrative of the Burkes?" and to add as a
+ Note, "If so, print them!"</p>
+
+ <p class="author">N. O.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Minor Queries.</h2>
+
+ <p><i>Farrant's Anthem.</i>&mdash;From what source did Farrant take the
+ words of his well-known anthem, "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake?"</p>
+
+ <p class="author">C. F. S.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Ascension Day Custom.</i>&mdash;What is the origin of the custom
+ which still obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting
+ the clergy with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day?</p>
+
+ <p class="author">C. F. S.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections.</i>&mdash;In
+ Snelling's tract on <i>Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver
+ Coins</i> (1769), p. 45., it is stated, in the description of a gold Coin
+ of Elizabeth, that it is "unique, formerly in the collection of Thomas
+ Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the collection of Thomas Knight, Esq.,
+ who purchased the whole cabinet."&mdash;Can any of your readers inform me
+ who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his collection is still in
+ existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what manner? I am not
+ aware of any sale catalogue under his name.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">J. B. B.</p>
+
+ <p><i>"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."</i>&mdash;I have
+ met with, and sometimes quoted, this line. <!-- Page 10 --><span
+ class="pagenum"><a name="page10"></a>{10}</span>Who is its author, and in
+ what poem does it occur?</p>
+
+ <p class="author">J. W. T.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Dewsbury.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Lord Fairfax.</i>&mdash;In the <i>Peerage of Scotland</i> I find
+ this entry:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of
+ Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship
+ resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of
+ that family taking a part in Scotch affairs. <i>Cameron</i> is, I
+ suppose, the parish of that name in the east of Fife.</p>
+
+ <p>I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances,
+ the barony was created?</p>
+
+ <p>2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in
+ Scotland, if they ever held any?</p>
+
+ <p>3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States?
+ If so, is he known and addressed as <i>Lord</i> Fairfax, or how?</p>
+
+ <p>4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of
+ the United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to
+ exercise the functions of a peer of Scotland, <i>e.g.</i> in the election
+ of representative peers?</p>
+
+ <p>5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken,
+ expressly or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly
+ renounces allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is
+ retained on the roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the
+ throne, and whose existence is a denial of the first proposition in the
+ constitution of his country?</p>
+
+ <p>Perhaps <span class="sc">Uneda</span>, W. W., or some other of your
+ Philadelphia correspondents, will be good enough to notice the third of
+ these Queries.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">W. H. M.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Tailless Cats.</i>&mdash;A writer in the <i>New York Literary
+ World</i> of Feb. 7, 1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of
+ tails, which are found in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx
+ correspondent will say whether this is a fact or a Jonathan.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Shirley Hibberd.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Saltcellar.</i>&mdash;Can any of your readers gainsay that in
+ saltcellar the cellar is a mere corruption of <i>salière</i>? A list of
+ compound words of Saxon and French origin might be curious.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">H. F. B.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos.</i>&mdash;Can any
+ reader of "N. &amp; Q." give the <i>date</i> of the grant of arms to Col.
+ William Carlos (who assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal
+ Oak," after the battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the
+ grant?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="grk">&mu;</span>.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Naval Atrocities.</i>&mdash;In the article on "Wounds," in the
+ <i>Encyc. Brit.</i>, 4th edition, published 1810, the author, after
+ mentioning the necessity of a surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on
+ the character of any wound, adds that "this is particularly necessary on
+ board ship, where, as soon as any man is pronounced by the surgeon to be
+ mortally wounded, he is forthwith, while still living and conscious,
+ thrown overboard," or words to this effect, as I quote from memory. That
+ such horrid barbarity was not practised in 1810, it is needless to say;
+ and if it had been usual at any previous period, Smollett and other
+ writers who have exposed with unsparing hand all the defects in the naval
+ system of their day, would have scarcely left this unnoticed when they
+ attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing ever occurred, even in the
+ worst of times, it must have been an isolated case. I have not met
+ elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the atrocity recorded in
+ it, and would be glad of more information on the subject.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Turlehydes.</i>&mdash;During the great famine in Ireland land in
+ 1331, it is said that&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential
+ relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish,
+ called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on shore
+ at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty feet
+ long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of the fish
+ could not see one another."&mdash;<i>The History and Antiquities of the
+ City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts</i>, by Walter Harris, 1766, p.
+ 265.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of
+ which still exist. As the term <i>turlehydes</i> is not known to Irish
+ scholars, can any of the readers of "N. &amp; Q." say what precise animal
+ is meant by it, or give any derivation or reference for the term?</p>
+
+ <p class="author">U. U.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Dublin.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Foreign Orders&mdash;Queen of Bohemia.</i>&mdash;It is well known
+ that in some foreign Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon
+ ladies. Can any of your correspondents inform me whether the Order of the
+ Annunciation of Sardinia, formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy,
+ at any time conferred its decorations upon ladies; and whether the
+ Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration
+ of any foreign order conferred upon her? In a portrait of her she is
+ represented with a star or badge upon the upper part of the left arm.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">S. E. G.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Pickard Family.</i>&mdash;Is the <i>Pickard</i>, or <i>Picard</i>,
+ family, a branch of which is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If
+ so, who were the <i>first settlers</i> in England; and also in what
+ county are they most numerous?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">One of the Family.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Bradford.</p>
+
+<p><!-- Page 11 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page11"></a>{11}</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Irish Chieftains.</i>&mdash;Some account of the following,
+ <i>Historical Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and other
+ Irish Chieftains</i>, privately printed, 1843, is requested by</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Martin.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Woburn Abbey.</p>
+
+ <p><i>General Braddock.</i>&mdash;Can any of your readers furnish me with
+ information relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against
+ Fort Du Quesne, and its details, are well known; but I should like to
+ know something more of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or
+ two of him, and mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think
+ too he was of Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of
+ Braddock in existence?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Serviens.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Minor Queries with Answers.</h2>
+
+ <p><i>Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex.</i>&mdash;A most extraordinary
+ custom exists, in a manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what
+ is called the "Lawless Court." This court is held at midnight, by
+ torch-light, in the centre of a field, on the first Friday after the 29th
+ Sept., and is presided over by the steward of the manor, who, however,
+ appoints a deputy to fulfil this part of his duty. The tenants of the
+ manor are obliged to attend to answer to their names, when called upon,
+ under pain of a heavy fine, or at all events have some one there to
+ respond for them. All the proceedings are carried on in a whisper, no one
+ speaking above that tone of voice; and the informations as to deaths,
+ names, &amp;c. are entered in a book by the president with a piece of
+ charcoal. I may add, the business is not commenced until a cock has
+ crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a difficult matter to get
+ Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to crow, whose fee therefor
+ is 5<i>s.</i></p>
+
+ <p>Now Morant, in his <i>History of Essex</i>, merely cursorily mentions
+ this most singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin;
+ I should therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning
+ it.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Russell Gole.</span></p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[The singular custom at Rochford is of uncertain origin: in old
+ authors it is spoken of as belonging to the manor of Rayleigh. The
+ following account of "The Lawless Court," at that place, is printed by
+ Hearne from the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. cxxv.:&mdash;"The
+ manor of Raylie, in Essex, hath a custome court kept yearly, the
+ Wednesday nexte after Michael's day. The court is kept in the night, and
+ without light, but as the skye gives, att a little hill without the
+ towne, called the King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals,
+ and not with inke. And many men and mannors of greate worth hold of the
+ same, and do suite unto this strange court, where the steward calls them
+ with as low a voice as possibly he may; giving no notice when he goes to
+ the hill to keepe the same court, and he that attends not is deepely
+ amerced, if the steward will. The title and entry of the same court is as
+ followeth, viz.:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg1">'Curia de domino rege,</p>
+ <p>Dicta <i>sine lege</i>,</p>
+ <p>Tenta est ibidem,</p>
+ <p>Per ejusdem consuetudinem,</p>
+ <p class="i1">Ante ortum solis,</p>
+ <p>Luceat nisi polus,</p>
+ <p>Seneschallus solus,</p>
+ <p class="i1">Scribit nisi colis.</p>
+ <p>Clamat clam pro rege</p>
+ <p>In curia <i>sine lege</i>:</p>
+ <p>Et qui non cito venerit</p>
+ <p>Citius p&oelig;nitebit:</p>
+ <p>Si venerit cum lumine</p>
+ <p>Errat in regimine.</p>
+ <p>Et dum sine lumine</p>
+ <p>Capti sunt in crimine,</p>
+ <p>Curia sine cura</p>
+ <p>Jurata de injuria</p>
+ <p class="i1">Tenta est die Mercuriæ</p>
+ <p class="i2">prox. post festum S. Michaelis.'"</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Weever, who mentions this custom, says, that he was informed that
+ "this servile attendance was imposed, at the first, upon certaine tenants
+ of divers mannors hereabouts, for conspiring in this place, at such an
+ unseasonable time, to raise a commotion."]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+ <p><i>Motto on old Damask.</i>&mdash;Can your correspondents furnish an
+ explanation of the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask
+ table napkins which were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a
+ shop in the ordinary way, but privately, from the family to whom they
+ belonged. I presume the larger characters, if put together, will indicate
+ the date of the event, whatever that may be, which is referred to in the
+ motto itself.</p>
+
+ <p>The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the
+ following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as
+ subjoined:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"<span class="sc">sIgnUM paCIs DatUr LorICæ.</span>"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U's are taken as two V's,
+ and written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be
+ explained.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">H.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[The chronogram above, which means "The signal of peace is given to
+ the warrior," relates to the peace proclaimed between England and France
+ in the year 1763. This event is noticed in the <i>Annual Register</i>,
+ and in most of our popular histories. Keightley says, "The overtures of
+ France for peace were readily listened to; and both parties being in
+ earnest, the preliminaries were readily settled at Fontainebleau (Nov.
+ 3rd). In spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were
+ approved of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a
+ treaty was finally signed in Paris, Feb. 18, 1763." The napkins were
+ probably a gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. For the
+ custom of noting the date of a great event by chronograms, see "N. &amp;
+ Q.," Vol. v., p. 585.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><!-- Page 12 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page12"></a>{12}</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Explanation of the Word "Miser."</i>&mdash;Can any of your readers
+ explain how and when <i>miser</i> came to get the meaning of an
+ avaricious hoarding man? In Spenser's <i>Faerie Queene</i>, II. l. 8., it
+ is used in its nearly primary sense of "wretch:"</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble <i>miser's</i> sake."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Again, <i>Faerie Queene</i>, II. 3. 8.:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"The <i>miser</i> threw himself, as an offall,</p>
+ <p>Straight at his foot in base humility."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>In Milton's <i>Comus</i>, which was written about fifty years after
+ the first three books of the <i>Faerie Queene,</i> the present
+ signification of the word is complete:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps</p>
+ <p>Of <i>miser's</i> treasure by an outlaw's den,</p>
+ <p>And tell me it is safe, as bid one hope</p>
+ <p>Danger will sink on opportunity," &amp;c.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. D. Gardner.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Bottisham.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[The modern restricted use of the word <i>miser</i> is subsequent to
+ Shakspeare's time for in Part I. <i>King Henry VI.</i>, Act V. Sc.
+ 4.,</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Decrepit <i>miser</i>! base ignoble wretch!"</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Steevens says has no relation to avarice, but simply means a
+ <i>miserable</i> creature. So in the interlude of <i>Jacob and Esau</i>,
+ 1568:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"But as for these <i>misers</i> within my father's tent."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Again, in Lord Stirling's tragedy of <i>Cr&oelig;sus</i>, 1604:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Or think'st thou me of judgement too remiss,</p>
+ <p>A <i>miser</i> that in miserie remains."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Otway, however, in his <i>Orphan</i>, published in 1680, uses it for a
+ covetous person:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Though she be dearer to my soul than rest</p>
+ <p>To weary pilgrims, or to <i>misers</i> gold,</p>
+ <p>Rather than wrong Castalio, I'd forget thee."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>So also does Pope:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"No silver saints by dying <i>misers</i> given,</p>
+ <p>Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heaven."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+</div>
+
+ <p><i>"Acis and Galatea."</i>&mdash;Is there any good evidence in support
+ of the commonly received opinion that the words to Handel's <i>Acis and
+ Galatea</i> were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they "are
+ said to have been written by Mr. Gay." I have no copy of Burney at hand
+ to refer to; but I find the same statement repeated by various other
+ musical historians, without, however, any authority being given for it.
+ The words in question are not to be found among the <i>Poems on several
+ Occasions</i>, by Mr. John Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others.
+ Have they ever been included in any collective edition of his works?</p>
+
+ <p class="author">G. T.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Reading.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[In the musical catalogue of the British Museum, compiled by Thomas
+ Oliphant, Esq., it is stated that the words to <i>Acis and Galatea</i>
+ "are said to be written, but apparently partly compiled, by John Gay."
+ This serenata is included among Gay's <i>Poems</i> in Dr. Johnson's
+ edition of the <i>English Poets</i>, 1790, as well as in Chalmers's
+ edition of 1810, and in the complete edition of <i>British Poets</i>,
+ Edinburgh, 1794.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+ <p><i>Birm-bank.</i>&mdash;The bank of a canal opposite to the
+ towing-path is called the <i>birm-bank</i>. What is the derivation of
+ this?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Uneda.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[The word <i>birm</i> seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr.
+ <i>berme</i>), which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of
+ three, four, or five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat
+ or foss, designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the
+ earth from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in Holland is
+ generally planted with quickset hedge.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+ <p><i>General Thomas Gage.</i>&mdash;This officer commanded at Boston at
+ the breaking out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock.
+ Where can I find any details of the remainder of his history?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Serviens.</span></p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[An interesting biographical account of General Gage is given in the
+ <i>Georgian Æra</i>, vol. ii. p. 67.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Replies.</h2>
+
+<h3>RAPPING NO NOVELTY.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.)</p>
+
+ <p>The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should
+ like to know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially
+ as there seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other
+ grounds one would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the
+ work which he quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement,
+ some correspondent would be so good as to state whether it has the
+ sanction of Baxter:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"Mr. Baxter, in his <i>Historical Discourse of Apparitions</i>, writes
+ thus: 'There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one
+ of my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable
+ rank, who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall
+ into the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his
+ brother's house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself sober,
+ something knocks at his bed's head, as if one knocked on a wainscot. When
+ they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud noises on other
+ parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have often watched him,
+ and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His brother has often
+ told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman, to attest it, who
+ avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen his shoes under the
+ bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them. They brought the man
+ himself to me, and when we asked <!-- Page 13 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page13"></a>{13}</span>him how he dare sin again after such a
+ warning, he had no excuse. But being persons of quality, for some special
+ reason of worldly interest I must not name him.'"&mdash;De Foe's <i>Life
+ of Duncan Campbell</i>, 2nd ed. p. 107.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>After this story, De Foe says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself
+ personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or
+ familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of
+ Wiltshire," &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from
+ Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in
+ Beaumont's <i>Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of
+ Spirits</i>, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe's
+ saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont "personally," but does anybody know
+ anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar
+ inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been
+ answered.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. R. Maitland.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 535.)</p>
+
+ <p>From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's
+ Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to <span
+ class="sc">Mr. Lathbury's</span>. This volume forms part of a collection
+ of books bequeathed to the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A.,
+ formerly of Baliol College:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &amp;c. 4to. London. 1762.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form "A Prayer for
+ the Reformed Churches" is included, which is omitted in all the
+ subsequent Forms. This is a copy of it:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+<p class="cenhead">"<i>A Prayer for the Reformed Churches.</i></p>
+
+ <p>"O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee,
+ more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be Thy
+ Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect,
+ strengthen, 'stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty
+ wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our
+ Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at present
+ enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted for
+ Righteousness' sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy
+ people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them
+ Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the
+ World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all
+ may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls,
+ Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen."</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1776.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1778.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1780.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1781.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1782.</p>
+
+ <p>A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other
+ days immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all
+ Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &amp;c.,
+ during his Majesty's present Indisposition. 1788.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch,
+ father of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St.
+ Michael's, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself
+ and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society for
+ Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity
+ Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and
+ saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the
+ cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of more
+ than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants
+ preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet
+ Street."&mdash;April 23, 1789.</p>
+
+ <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King's Recovery. 1789.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1793.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1795.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1796.</p>
+
+ <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important
+ Victories. 1797.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1798.</p>
+
+ <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &amp;c.
+ 1798.</p>
+
+ <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet,
+ Aug. 1. 1798.</p>
+
+ <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;H. the
+ Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1799.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1800.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1801.</p>
+
+ <p>Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801.</p>
+
+ <p>Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1803.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1804.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1805.</p>
+
+ <p>Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson's Victory. 1805.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1806.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1807.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1808.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1809.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1810.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Fast. 1812.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814.</p>
+
+ <p>Form, &amp;c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Macray.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Oxford.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<p><!-- Page 14 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page14"></a>{14}</span></p>
+
+<h3>CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 174.)</p>
+
+ <p>There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is
+ one full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth
+ mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only
+ of late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they
+ are compared together, the more important and the more striking do the
+ resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek
+ literature applies equally to Latin, "that we seem now to have reached
+ that point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of
+ the same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh
+ step in advance." But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and
+ Latin, is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman,
+ in his <i>Regal Rome</i>, has attention to the subject; but his induction
+ does not appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion
+ respecting the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin.
+ Pritchard's work upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but
+ both these authors have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of
+ Celtic and Latin words; but it is not <i>merely</i> this we want. What is
+ required is a critical examination into the comparative structure and
+ formal development of the two languages, and this is a work still to be
+ accomplished. The later numbers of Bopp's <i>Comparative Grammar</i> are,
+ I believe, devoted to this subject, but as they have not been translated,
+ they must be confined to a limited circle of English readers, and I have
+ not yet seen any reproduction of the views therein contained in the
+ philological literature of England.</p>
+
+ <p>As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a
+ large induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the
+ pages of "N. &amp; Q." might be made useful in supplying "links of
+ connexion" to supply a groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude
+ by suggesting one or two "links" that I do not remember to have seen
+ elsewhere.</p>
+
+ <p>1. Is the root of <i>felix</i> to be found in the Irish <i>fail</i>,
+ <i>fate</i>; the contraction of the dipththong <i>ai</i> or <i>ê</i>
+ being analogous to that of <i>amaïmus</i> into <i>amêmus</i>?</p>
+
+ <p>2. Is it not probable that <i>Avernus</i>, if not corrupted from <span
+ title="aornos" class="grk"
+ >&#x1F04;&omicron;&rho;&nu;&omicron;&sigmaf;</span>, is related to
+ <i>iffrin</i>, the Irish <i>inferi</i>? This derivation is at any rate
+ more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with <span
+ title="Acherôn" class="grk"
+ >&#x1F08;&chi;&#x1F73;&rho;&omega;&nu;</span>.</p>
+
+ <p>3. Were the <i>Galli</i>, priests of Cybele, so called as being
+ connected with fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the
+ Celtic <i>gal</i>, a flame? The word <i>Gallus</i>, a Gaul, is of course
+ the same as the Irish <i>gal</i>, a stranger.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">T. H. T.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 468.)</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Mr. Ingleby's</span> question might easily be the
+ foundation of a geometrical paper; but as this would not be a desirable
+ contribution, I will endeavour to keep clear of technicalities, in
+ pointing out how the process described may give something near to a
+ circle, or may not.</p>
+
+ <p>When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two
+ parts perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is <i>symmetrical</i>
+ about that straight line, which may be called an <i>axis of symmetry</i>.
+ Thus every diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular
+ oval has two axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every
+ regular polygon of an <i>odd</i> number of sides has an axis joining each
+ corner to the middle of the opposite sides: every regular polygon of an
+ <i>even</i> number of sides has axes joining opposite corners, and axes
+ joining the middles of opposite sides.</p>
+
+ <p>When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or
+ curvilinear, is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of
+ either side which are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded
+ figure will of course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If
+ another line be now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process
+ repeated, the second line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first
+ perhaps ceases to be one. If the process be then repeated on the first
+ line, this last becomes an axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an
+ axis. If this process can be indefinitely continued, the cuttings must
+ become smaller and smaller, for the following reason. Suppose, at the
+ outset, the boundary point nearest to the intersection of the axes is
+ distant from that intersection by, say four inches; it is clear that we
+ cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a part of the boundary at less
+ than four inches from the intersection. For there never is, after any
+ cutting, any approach to the intersection except what there already was
+ on the other side of the axis employed, before that cutting was made. If
+ then the cuttings should go on for ever, or practically until the pieces
+ to be cut off are too small, and <i>if this take place all round</i>, the
+ figure last obtained will be a good representation of a circle of four
+ inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always cutting down, at
+ all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we can never come
+ nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes.</p>
+
+ <p>But it does not follow that the process <i>will</i> go on for ever. We
+ may come at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of
+ symmetry at once; and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a
+ curvilinear boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the
+ proper angle, it would happen that we should arrive at a <!-- Page 15
+ --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page15"></a>{15}</span><i>regular</i>
+ curved polygon, having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process
+ would then stop.</p>
+
+ <p>I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere
+ rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is
+ still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the
+ ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters
+ alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so
+ many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval.
+ But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a
+ perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its
+ sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be
+ that of a circle.</p>
+
+ <p>Suppose, as in <span class="sc">Mr. Ingleby's</span> question, that
+ the creases are not at right angles to each other; supposing the eye and
+ the scissors <i>perfect</i>, the results will be as follows:</p>
+
+ <p>First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the
+ mathematicians call <i>incommensurable</i> with the whole revolution;
+ that is, suppose that no repetition of the angle will produce an
+ <i>exact</i> number of revolutions. Then the cutting will go on for ever,
+ and the result will perpetually approach a circle. It is easily shown
+ that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has two axes of symmetry
+ which make an angle incommensurable with the whole revolution.</p>
+
+ <p>Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the
+ revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be
+ repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even,
+ it is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd,
+ it is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon.</p>
+
+ <p>Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the
+ creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of
+ the creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that
+ fourteen repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an
+ exact number of revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular
+ polygon of fourteen sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had
+ been taken for the angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have
+ had thirty-four sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that
+ the number of ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular
+ appearance.</p>
+
+ <p>Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three
+ or more axes, whether all passing through one point or not.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">A. De Morgan.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>THE BLACK-GUARD.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 414.)</p>
+
+ <p>Some of your correspondents, <span class="sc">Sir James E.
+ Tennent</span> especially, have been very learned on this subject, and
+ all have thrown new light on what I consider a very curious inquiry. The
+ following document I discovered some years ago in the Lord Steward's
+ Offices. Your readers will see its value at once; but it may not be amiss
+ to observe, that the name in its present application had its origin in
+ the number of masterless boys hanging about the verge of the Court and
+ other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and palace stables; ready
+ with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct, and rob people on
+ foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow the Court in its
+ progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope's "link-boys vile" are the
+ black-guard boys of the following Proclamation.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Peter Cunningham.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="author">At the Board of Green Cloth,<br />in Windsor Castle,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br />this 7th day of May, 1683.</p>
+
+ <p>Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and
+ rogues, commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose
+ fellowes, vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually
+ haunt and follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as
+ Wee are informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that
+ happened in the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently
+ do commit divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where
+ they resort, to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the
+ prevention of which evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby
+ strictly charge and command all those so called the Black-guard as
+ aforesaid, with all other loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and
+ wanderers, who have intruded themselves into His Majesty's Court or
+ stables, that within the space of twenty-four houres next after the
+ publishing of this order, they depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and
+ such other punishments as by law are to be inflicted on them.</p>
+
+ <div class="contents">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>(Signed)</p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Ormond.</span></p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">H. Bulkeley.</span></p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">H. Brouncker.</span></p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Rich. Mason.</span></p>
+ <p class="i4"><span class="sc">Ste. Fox.</span></p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.)</p>
+
+ <p>The Calves' Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their
+ doings were commemorated in the <i>Weekly Oracle</i> (Vol. viii., p.
+ 315.) of February 1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii.,
+ p. 480.). There is a pamphlet, <!-- Page 16 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page16"></a>{16}</span>the second edition of which was published in
+ small 4to., in 1703, entitled:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"The Secret History of the Calves' Head Club, or, the Republican
+ Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head Heroes
+ in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of January, by
+ their Anthems," &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work
+ was published "to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a
+ certain party still among us," and certainly the statements therein, and
+ more than all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest
+ hatred&mdash;so bitter, so intense and malignant, that we feel on reading
+ it that there must be some exaggeration.</p>
+
+ <p>The author professes to have at first been of opinion "that the story
+ was purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious
+ than they deserv'd." Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular
+ demonstration he does not tell us, but gives us information he received
+ from a gentleman&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their
+ Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was
+ inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as
+ they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em was
+ in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly consisted of
+ Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of the
+ Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry White,
+ formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to sanctify
+ with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said Grace; that
+ after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem, as they
+ impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with wine, or
+ other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious memory of those
+ worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd their country from
+ arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for the mercenary scribler,
+ to which every man contributed according to his zeal for the cause, or
+ the ability of his purse.</p>
+
+ <p>"I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as
+ faithfully as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some
+ persons that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the
+ author of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves'
+ Head Club to be true."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given;
+ but they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote
+ here. They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the
+ serious productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically
+ heretical.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward Peacock.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Bottesford Moors.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3>
+
+ <p><i>The Calotype Process.</i>&mdash;I have made any first essay in the
+ calotype process, following <span class="sc">Dr. Diamond's</span>
+ directions given in "N. &amp; Q.," and using Turner's paper, as
+ recommended by him. My success has been quite as great as I could expect
+ as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to my own want of
+ skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish, however, to
+ ask a question as to iodizing the paper. <span class="sc">Dr.
+ Diamond</span> says, lay the paper on the solution; then
+ <i>immediately</i> remove it, and lay on the dry side on blotting-paper,
+ &amp;c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole sheet of paper
+ curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to know,
+ therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to remain
+ on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on removal it
+ will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the dry side to
+ pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on the
+ solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a great tendency to curl, and takes
+ some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows it
+ to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the
+ glass rod, without floating at all?</p>
+
+ <p>Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction,
+ are so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given
+ by <span class="sc">Dr. Diamond</span>, which are the result of
+ experience, that I am sure he will not mind being troubled with a few
+ inquiries relative to them.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">C. E. F.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Hockin's Short Sketch.</i>&mdash;Mr. Hockin is so well known as a
+ thoroughly practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to
+ the fact of his having published a little brochure entitled <i>How to
+ obtain Positive and Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy
+ the latter upon Paper. A Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in
+ Photography.</i> As the question of the <i>alkalinity</i> of the nitrate
+ bath is one which has lately been discussed, we will give, as a specimen
+ of Mr. Hockin's book, a quotation, showing his opinion upon that
+ question:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"<i>The sensitizing agent</i>, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the
+ ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it is
+ thus employed:</p>
+
+ <p>"<i>The silver or nitrate bath.</i>&mdash;Nitrate of silver five
+ drachms, distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion
+ two drachms.</p>
+
+ <p>"Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and
+ filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid with
+ a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being immersed one
+ minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid<a name="footnotetag3"
+ href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a>, and test again for a minute; and so
+ on, until a claret red is indicated on the paper. It is necessary to test
+ the bath in a similar manner, frequently adding half a drop to a drop of
+ dilute acid when required. This precaution will prevent the fogging due
+ to alkalinity of the bath, so formidable an obstacle to young hands."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a
+ href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+ <p>"Dilute nitric acid.&mdash;Water fifty parts, nitric acid one
+ part."</p>
+
+</div>
+ <p><i>Photographic Society's Exhibition.</i>&mdash;The Photographic
+ Society opened their first Exhibition of <!-- Page 17 --><span
+ class="pagenum"><a name="page17"></a>{17}</span>Photographs and
+ Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of the Society of British Artists, in
+ Suffolk Street, with a <i>soirée</i> on Tuesday evening last.
+ Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the rooms were crowded not
+ only by members of the Society, but by many of the most distinguished
+ literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen and Prince
+ Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in an
+ examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the
+ exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it
+ afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past
+ year, and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater
+ excellence might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just
+ one, and embodied that given afterwards by the most competent
+ authorities. We have not room this week to enter into any details, but
+ can confidently recommend our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk
+ Street.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2>
+
+ <p><i>"Firm was their faith," &amp;c.</i> (Vol. viii., p.
+ 564.).&mdash;These lines are to be found in a poem called "Morwennæ
+ Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by Masters in 1846, with the title
+ of <i>Echoes from Old Cornwall</i>, and written by the Vicar of
+ Morwenstow. I agree with D.&nbsp;M. in the judgment he has announced as to
+ their merits; but hitherto they have been but little appreciated by the
+ public. A time will come however, when these and other compositions of
+ the author will be better known and more duly valued by the English
+ mind.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Saxa.</span></p>
+
+ <p>These lines were written on "the Minster of Morwenna," May, 1840, and
+ appeared in the <i>British Magazine</i> under the anonymous name
+ <i>Procul</i>. Of the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P.&nbsp;M. has
+ quoted the second. The second line should be read "wise <i>of</i> heart,"
+ and the third "<i>firm</i> and trusting hands." With your correspondent,
+ I hope the author's name may be discovered.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">F. R. R.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Vellum-cleaning</i> (Vol. viii., p.340.).&mdash;In the Polytechnic
+ Institution there are specimens of old deeds, &amp;c., on vellum and
+ paper, beautifully cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner
+ Temple Lane, Temple, London.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">J. M<sup>c</sup>K.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Shoreham.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Wooden Tombs</i> (Vol. viii., p. 255.).&mdash;In the church at
+ Brading, Isle of Wight&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William
+ Oglander's chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the
+ rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of
+ these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour
+ of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and gilt,
+ but now disfigured by coats of dirty white."&mdash;Barber's Picturesque
+ Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p class="author">J. M<sup>c</sup>K.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Shoreham.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263</i> (Vol. viii., p. 441.).&mdash;In
+ the <i>Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland</i>, vol. ii.
+ p. 350., there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against
+ Scotland in the year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when
+ speaking of the annular eclipse, he says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between
+ these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to Dr.
+ Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he found
+ that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and which was
+ annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was twenty-four
+ minutes past one."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>These "Observations" contain much curious information; but are
+ deformed by the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian
+ writer (at p. 358. and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own.
+ Having seen that essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of
+ attending to my observations, he would not read them, and got into a
+ passion against the friend who showed the MS. to me.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">J. M<sup>c</sup>K.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Shoreham.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Lines on Woman</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &amp;c.).&mdash;The
+ lines on Woman are, I presume, an altered version of those of Barret
+ (Mrs. Barrett Browning?); they are the finale of a short poem on Woman;
+ the correct version is the following:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Peruse the sacred volume, Him who died</p>
+ <p>Her kiss betray'd not, nor her tongue denied;</p>
+ <p>While even the Apostle left Him to His doom,</p>
+ <p>She linger'd round His cross and watch'd His tomb."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for
+ insertion.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ma. L.</span></p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel
+ passages. The lines quoted by W.&nbsp;V. and those now given by our present
+ correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem. Besides,
+ it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from the poem
+ entitled <i>Woman</i>, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see antè, pp. 350.
+ 423.).]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+ <p><i>Satin</i> (Vol. vii., p. 551.).&mdash;In a note just received by me
+ from Canton, an American friend of mine remarks as follows:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"When you write again to 'N. &amp; Q.' you can say that the word
+ <i>satin</i> (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese
+ origin, and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the
+ English to imitate the Chinese <i>sz-tün</i>, have <!-- Page 18 --><span
+ class="pagenum"><a name="page18"></a>{18}</span>approximated closely to
+ it, and to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the
+ place referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. <i>satin</i>, W.
+ <i>sidan</i>, &amp;c. &amp;c."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you
+ quote, have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion
+ of my Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I
+ have shown the above extract.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">W. T. M.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p>
+
+ <p><i>"Quid facies," &amp;c.</i> (Vol. viii., p. 539.).&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"<span class="sc">Bierve</span>, <i>N. Maréchal</i>, <i>Marquis
+ de</i>, a Frenchman well known for his ready wit and great facetiousness.
+ He wrote two plays of considerable merit, <i>Les Réputations</i> and
+ <i>Le Séducteur</i>. He died at Spa, 1789, aged 42. He is author of the
+ distich on courtezans:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg1">'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante?</p>
+ <p>Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'"</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>&mdash;Lemprière's <i>Universal Biography</i>, abridged from the
+ larger work, London, 1808.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Forbes.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Temple.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Sotades</i> (Vol. viii., p. 520.).&mdash;Your correspondent <span
+ class="sc">Charles Reed</span> says that Sotades was a Roman poet 250
+ <span class="scac">B.C.</span>; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma
+ tibi subito," &amp;c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or,
+ according to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria <span
+ class="scac">B.C.</span> 280 (Smith's <i>Dictionary of Biography</i>,
+ Clinton, F.&nbsp;H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a few fragments of his poems,
+ but none of them are palindromical. The authority for his having written
+ so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. <span class="scac">II.</span> 86.
+ 2.:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Nec retro lego Sotaden cinædum."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Zeus.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>The Third Part of "Christabel"</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 11.
+ 111.).&mdash;Has the <i>Irish Quarterly Review</i> any other reason for
+ ascribing this poem to Maginn than the common belief which makes him the
+ sole and original Morgan Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little
+ value, as, exclusive of some pieces under that name which have been
+ avowed by other writers, many of the Odoherty papers contain palpable
+ internal evidence of having been written by a Scotchman, or at least one
+ very familiar with Scotland, which at that time he was not; even the
+ letter accompanying the third part of <i>Christabel</i> is dated from
+ Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove nothing, the circumstances
+ above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence as to the time when
+ Maginn's contributions to <i>Blackwood</i> commenced, seems strongly
+ presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most
+ distinguished writers in <i>Blackwood</i> are still alive, and could, no
+ doubt, clear up this point at once, if so inclined.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Attainment of Majority</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).&mdash;In my
+ last communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to
+ prove that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think,
+ A.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;B. will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man
+ attains his majority commence at six o'clock <span
+ class="scac">A.M.</span>, or at midnight? We must remember that we are
+ dealing with a question of <i>English</i> law; and therefore the evidence
+ of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the latter
+ mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;B. has
+ defended Ben Jonson's use of the former, viz. <i>Roman</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at
+ eleven at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his
+ age at one o'clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies,
+ it is a good will, for he was then of age."&mdash;<i>Salkeld</i>, 44.;
+ <i>Raymond</i>, 480, 1096; 1 <i>Siderfin</i>, 162.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six
+ hours before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not
+ regarding the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves
+ that the day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at
+ midnight.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Russell Gole.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 429.
+ 543.).&mdash;In answer to J.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;J.'s Query, I beg to state that I have in
+ my possession a codicil of Mrs. Conduit's will in her own hand, dated
+ 26th of January, 1737. This document refers to some theological tracts by
+ Sir Isaac Newton, in his handwriting, which I have. On referring to the
+ pedigree of the Barton family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married
+ Catherine Greenwood, whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of
+ Messrs. Greenwood, army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who
+ married Elizabeth Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find
+ no mention of Colonel Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been
+ previously connected with that of Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of
+ Barton Segrave, having married Jane Barton of Brigstock. The writer of
+ this note will be obliged if J.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;J., or any correspondent of "N. &amp;
+ Q.," will inform him if anything is known respecting an ivory bust of Sir
+ Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or Marchant, which is said to have
+ been an excellent likeness.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">S. X.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <p>[The ivory bust referred to by our correspondent is, we believe, in
+ the British Museum.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+ <p><i>The fifth Lord Byron</i> (Vol. viii., p. 2.).&mdash;I cannot but
+ think that <span class="sc">Mr. Hasleden's</span> memory has deceived him
+ as to the "wicked lord" having <!-- Page 19 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page19"></a>{19}</span>settled his estates upon the marriage of his
+ son; how is this to be reconciled with the often published statement,
+ that the marriage of his son with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the
+ admiral, and aunt of the late and present lords, was made not only
+ without the consent, but in spite of the opposition, of the old lord, and
+ that he never forgave his son in consequence?</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden</span>.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Burton Family</i> (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).&mdash;In connexion with
+ a Query which was kindly noticed by <span class="sc">Mr. Algor</span> of
+ Sheffield, who did not however communicate anything new to me, I would
+ ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq., formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose
+ death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750, I find recorded in the Obituary of
+ the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for that year? I am also desirous to
+ ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton of St. Helens, whose
+ daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes, Esq., ancestor of
+ the Sikes's of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died since 1696. Both
+ Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons of Kilburn, in
+ the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query referred.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">E. H. A.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus</i> (Vol.
+ viii., p. 563.).&mdash;In answer to <span class="sc">Mr.
+ Gantillon's</span> inquiry for the above translation, I beg to state that
+ it will be found appended to an octavo edition of Hodgson's poem of
+ <i>Lady Jane Grey</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work
+ before me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which <span
+ class="sc">Balliolensis</span> inquiries. The justly admired translation
+ of <i>Edwin and Angelina</i>, to which the latter refers, was by
+ Hodgson's too early lost friend Lloyd. The splendid pentameter is
+ slightly misquoted by <span class="sc">Balliolensis</span>. It is
+ not&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Poscimus in <i>terris</i> pauca, nec illa diù."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>but&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Poscimus in <i>vitâ</i>," &amp;c.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thomas Russell Potter</span>.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Wymeswold, Loughborough.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Wylcotes' Brass</i> (Vol. viii., p. 494.).&mdash;I should hardly
+ have supposed that any difficulty could exist in explaining the
+ inscription:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"In · on · is · all."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>To me it appears self-evident that it must be&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"In one (God) is my all."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author">H. C. C.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &amp;c</i>. (Vol. viii., p.
+ 244.).&mdash;I would refer <span class="sc">J. B. Whitborne</span> to
+ <i>The Antiquities of Berkshire</i> (so miscalled), by Elias Ashmole;
+ where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has given the
+ inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing <i>and legible in his
+ time</i>. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was
+ ever of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the
+ Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7
+ the manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the
+ brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566,
+ ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not
+ 1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly
+ given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles,
+ threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made
+ by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks,
+ natural son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no
+ crest nor motto.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">H. C. C.</p>
+
+ <p><i>The Keate Family</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)&mdash;Should the
+ Query of G.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr.
+ Burke's <i>Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England</i> relating to the
+ Keate family, as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be
+ able, on application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars
+ which are not noticed in Mr. Burke's works.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">H. C. C.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Sir Charles Cotterell</i> (Vol viii., p. 564.).&mdash;Sir Charles
+ Cotterell, the translator of <i>Cassandra</i>, died in 1687. (See
+ Fuller's <i>Worthies</i>, by Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.)</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span title="Halieus" class="grk">&#x1F09;&lambda;&iota;&epsilon;&#x1F7B;&sigmaf;</span>.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Dublin.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Huc's Travels</i> (Vol. viii., p. 516.).&mdash;Not having seen the
+ <i>Gardener's Chronicle</i>, in which C.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;B. says the travels of
+ Messrs. Huc and Gabet in Thibet, Tartary, &amp;c. are said to be a pure
+ fabrication, concocted by some Parisian <i>littérateur</i>, I cannot know
+ what degree of credit, if any, is to be given to such a statement. All I
+ wish to communicate at present for the information of your Querist
+ C.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;B. is this, that I have read an account and abstract of Messrs. Huc
+ and Gabet's <i>Travels</i> in one of the ablest and best conducted French
+ reviews, <i>La Revue des Deux Mondes</i>; in which not the least
+ suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed as
+ to the genuineness of these <i>Travels</i>. Mr. Princep, also, in his
+ work on Thibet, Tartary, &amp;c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and
+ avails himself extensively of the information contained in them with
+ reference to Buddhism, &amp;c.</p>
+
+ <p>Should the writer in the <i>Gardener's Chronicle</i> have it in his
+ power to <i>prove</i> the <i>Travels</i> to be a fabrication, he will
+ confer a benefit on the world of letters by unmasking the fabricator.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">J. M.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Oxford.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Pictures at Hampton Court Palace</i> (Vol. viii., p.
+ 538.).&mdash;In reply to <span class="grk">&Phi;</span>.'s question when
+ the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King <!-- Page 20 --><span
+ class="pagenum"><a name="page20"></a>{20}</span>George III., after the
+ Prince of Wales assumed the command of that regiment, I beg to state that
+ the Prince entered the army as brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the
+ regiment received the title of "The Prince of Wales's own Regiment of
+ Light Dragoons" on Michaelmas Day, 1783: that the regiment was stationed
+ in the south of England and in the vicinity of London for many years,
+ from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George III. repeatedly
+ reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family. That the
+ Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in 1793,
+ and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That the
+ regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799; and
+ the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty's
+ orders to convey his Majesty's approbation of its excellent appearance
+ and performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted
+ in 1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free
+ from errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">M. A.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Pembroke College, Oxon.</p>
+
+ <p><i>John Waugh</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).&mdash;Does <span
+ class="sc">Karleolensis</span> know whether John Waugh, son of Waugh,
+ Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to whom?</p>
+
+ <p>Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and
+ thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of
+ Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Exeter.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Daughters taking their Mothers' Names</i> (Vol. viii., p.
+ 586.).&mdash;When <span class="sc">Buriensis</span> asks for instances of
+ this, and mentions "Alicia, daughter of Ada," as an example, is he not
+ mistaking, or following some one else who has mistaken, the <i>gender</i>
+ of the parent's name? <i>Alicia fil. Adæ</i> would be rendered "Alice
+ Fitz-Adam," unless there be anything in the context to determine the
+ gender otherwise.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom.</span></p>
+
+ <p>"<i>Service is no Inheritance</i>" (Vol. viii., p. 586.).&mdash;This
+ proverbial saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under
+ which the lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before
+ admitting the heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase.
+ On which occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or
+ heir, "fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;" the relief being
+ generally a year's rent or service.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Anon.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver</i> (Vol. viii., p.
+ 340.).&mdash;If your correspondent A.&nbsp;H. has not already appropriated the
+ anecdote here alluded to, I think I can confidently refer him to any
+ biographical notice of Grindling Gibbons&mdash;to whom the story of the
+ "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons was recommended to Sir Christopher by
+ Evelyn, I think; but not having "made a note of it," I am not sure that
+ it is to be found in his <i>Diary</i>.<a name="footnotetag4"
+ href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> If there be any monograph Life of
+ Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found there.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">M. (2)</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+ <a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a
+ href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+ <p>See Evelyn's <i>Diary</i>, vol. ii. pp. 53, 54., edition
+ 1850.&mdash;<span class="sc">Ed.</span></p>
+
+</div>
+ <p><i>Souvaroff's Despatch</i> (Vol. viii., p. 490).&mdash;Souvaroff's
+ doggerel despatch from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual,
+ misspelt and mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have
+ never yet seen in English, a correct version of it:</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Slava Bogou, slava Vam;</p>
+ <p>Krépost vziala, ee ya tam."</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="hg3">"Glory to God, glory to You,</p>
+ <p>The fortress is taken, and I am there."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Dmitri Andréef.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Detached Church Towers</i> (Vol. viii., p. 63.).&mdash;In the lists
+ I have seen no mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church,
+ which stands at a distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the
+ church.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">W. B. D.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Lynn.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Queen Anne's Motto</i> (Vol. viii., p. 174.).&mdash;The Historical
+ Society of Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms,
+ painted on wood in the time of Queen Anne, having "Anna R." at the top,
+ and the motto <i>Semper eadem</i> on the scroll below. It probably was in
+ one of the Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the
+ Revolution.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Uneda.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Lawyers' Bags</i> (Vol. vii. <i>passim</i>).&mdash;The
+ communication of <span class="sc">Mr. Kersley</span>, in p. 557.,
+ although it does not support the inference which <span class="sc">Col.
+ Landman</span> draws, that the colour of lawyers' bags was changed in
+ consequence of the unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen
+ Caroline, seems to show that <i>green</i> was at one time the colour of
+ those professional pouches. The question still remains, when and on what
+ occasion it was discontinued; and when the purple, and when the crimson,
+ were introduced?</p>
+
+ <p>When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior
+ barrister presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one
+ had been presented to him by a king's counsel; who, when a junior was
+ advancing in practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his
+ increase of business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his
+ papers. It was then a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a
+ junior was rising <!-- Page 21 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+ name="page21"></a>{21}</span>in his profession. I do not know whether the
+ same custom prevailed in the other courts.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Causidicus.</span></p>
+
+ <p>In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The
+ custom has declined of late years among the members of the legal
+ profession, and it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers,
+ who thus carry their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now
+ the badge of a cordwainer in this city.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><a href="images/oldew.png"><img src="images/oldew.png" class="middle" style="height:1.5ex" alt="Old English W" /></a>.</p>
+
+ <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Bust of Luther</i> (Vol. viii., p. 335.).&mdash;<span
+ class="sc">Mr. J.&nbsp;G. Fitch</span> asks for information respecting a bust
+ of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall of a house, in the Dom Platz
+ at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned, through a German acquaintance,
+ who has resided the greater part of his life in that city, that the
+ effigy was erected to commemorate the event of Luther's having, during a
+ short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot; and that the words
+ surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He adds that Luther
+ at no period of his life "lived for some years" at Frankfort, as stated
+ by <span class="sc">Mr. Fitch</span>.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alfred Smith.</span></p>
+
+ <p><i>Grammar in relation to Logic</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 514.
+ 629.).&mdash;H.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;K.'s remarks are of course indisputable. But it is a
+ mistake to suppose that they answer my Query. In fact, had your
+ correspondent taken the trouble to consider the meaning of my Query, he
+ could not have failed to perceive that the explanation I there gave of
+ the function of the conjunction <i>in logic</i>, is the same as his. My
+ Query had sole reference <i>to grammar</i>. I would also respectfully
+ suggest that anonymous correspondents should not impute "superficial
+ views," or any other disagreeable thing, to those who stand
+ <i>confessed</i>, without abandoning the pseudonym.</p>
+
+ <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Mansfield Ingleby.</span></p>
+
+ <p class="address">Birmingham.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2>
+
+<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.</h3>
+
+ <p>Mr. Timbs announces for publication by subscription, <i>Curiosities of
+ London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable Objects of Interest in
+ the Metropolis</i>. Mr. Timbs states, the authorities for his work have
+ been four-and-twenty years in collection; and that the utmost pains has
+ been taken to verify names, dates, and circumstances, so as to insure
+ accuracy. In this labour the author has been aided by the communications
+ of many obliging friends, as well as by his own recollection of nearly
+ fifty years' changes in the aspects of "opulent, enlarged, and still
+ increasing London."</p>
+
+ <p>It is proposed to publish by subscription <i>The Visitation of the
+ County of Northumberland</i>, taken by Richard St. George, Esq., Norroy
+ King of Arms, and Henry St. George, Esq., Blue Mantle Pursuivant of Arms,
+ <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1615. To be printed in tables on folio,
+ with the arms engraved on wood, price One Guinea; or large paper, royal
+ folio, Two Guineas; or large paper with the arms emblazoned (of which
+ only the number subscribed for will be done), Five Guineas. Subscribers'
+ names will be received by Mr. John Gray Bell, No. 17. Bedford Street,
+ Covent Garden.</p>
+
+ <p>The first number of the <i>Antiquities of Shropshire</i>, by the Rev.
+ R.&nbsp;W. Eyton, has just been issued for the sake of determining the
+ author's doubts as to whether there is any general wish for such a
+ publication. Should the answer be in the negative, the author will
+ neither forget his obligation to present subscribers, nor the explanation
+ which he will farther owe them if the work be discontinued. The work will
+ extend at least to five volumes, or twenty parts, and, according to the
+ present plan, will be completed in not less than five years. Any
+ subscriber will be at liberty to withdraw his name, by giving notice to
+ that effect within one month after the publication of any fourth part, or
+ completed volume. Three hundred copies of Part I. have been printed, but
+ the number of the future parts will be limited to those subscribed for
+ within the next three months.</p>
+
+ <p><i>The Surrey Archæological Society</i> propose holding the Inaugural
+ General Meeting of the Society in Southwark early in the month of
+ February, and to exhibit upon the occasion a collection of such objects
+ of antiquarian interest relating to Surrey as may be contributed for that
+ purpose. Parties are invited to favour the Society with the loan of such
+ objects.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Books Received.</span>&mdash;<i>A Peep at the Pixies,
+ or Legends of the West</i>, by Mrs. Bray: written for the entertainment
+ of a family circle, these amusing records of the doings of the little
+ people will find favour with all lovers of folk lore.&mdash;<i>Ada's
+ Thoughts, or the Poetry of Youth</i>, may be commended for its natural,
+ simple, yet elevated tone.&mdash;<i>Essay on Human Happiness</i>, by
+ C.&nbsp;B. Adderley, M.P.; the first of a series of <i>Great Truths for
+ Thoughtful Hours</i>. A set of little books similar in object and design
+ to Pickering's well-known series of <i>Small Books on Great
+ Subjects</i>.&mdash;<i>Beauties of Byron, Verse and Prose.</i> This
+ selection, made for Murray's <i>Railway Reading</i>, will be acceptable
+ to many who would object to place the collected edition of the noble
+ bard's writings in the hands of the younger members of their
+ family.&mdash;<i>Speeches on Parliamentary Reform</i>, by the Right Hon.
+ T.&nbsp;B. Macaulay. This new number of Longman's <i>Traveller's Library</i>
+ is well-timed, and very acceptable.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Isaac Taylor's Physical Theory of another
+ Life.</span></p>
+
+ <p>*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, <i>carriage
+ free</i>, to be sent to <span class="sc">Mr. Bell</span>, Publisher of
+ "NOTES AND QUERIES." 186. Fleet Street.</p>
+
+ <p>Particulars of Price, &amp;c. of the following Books to be sent direct
+ to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and addresses
+ are given for that purpose:</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Sandy's Christmas Carols</span>, Ancient and Modern.
+ 8vo. 1833.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Junius Discovered</span>, by P. T. Published about
+ 1789.</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Wanted by <i>William J. Thoms</i>, 25. Holywell Street, Millbank, Westminster.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<p><!-- Page 22 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page22"></a>{22}</span></p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Gallery of Portraits.</span> Published by Charles
+ Knight, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of
+ Useful Knowledge. No. XLIII. (December, 1835), containing Adam Smith,
+ Calvin, Mansfield.</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Wanted by <i>Charles Forbes</i>, 3. Elm Court, Temple.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Bristol Drollery.</span> 1674.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Holborn Drollery.</span> 1673.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Hicks's Grammatical Drollery.</span> 1682.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Oxford Jests.</span></p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Cambridge Jests.</span></p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Wanted by <i>C. S.</i>, 12. Gloucester Green, Oxford.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Mudie's British Birds.</span> Bohn. 1841. 2nd
+ Volume.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Waverley.</span> 1st Edition.</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Wanted by <i>F. R. Sowerby</i>, Halifax.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Notices to Correspondents.</h2>
+
+ <p><i>Among other interesting communications intended for our present
+ Number, but which we have been compelled by want of space to postpone
+ until next week, are</i> <span class="sc">Mr. Gutch</span><i>'s Paper
+ on</i> Griffin and his Fidessa, <span class="sc">Mr. D'Alton</span><i>'s
+ on</i> James II.'s Irish Army List, <i>and</i> <span class="sc">Dr.
+ Diamond</span><i>'s on</i> The Advantages of Small Photographs.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Cestriensis.</span> <i>We have a letter for this
+ Correspondent; where shall it be sent?</i></p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Eirionnach.</span> <i>The letter for this
+ Correspondent has been forwarded.</i></p>
+
+ <p>W. J. L. <i>The</i> Merry Llyd <i>or</i> Hewid <i>has already formed
+ the subject of some notices in our columns: see</i> Vol. i., pp. 173.
+ 315.; Vol. vi., p. 410. <i>We should be glad to have any satisfactory
+ explanation of the origin and antiquity of the custom.</i></p>
+
+ <p>J. E. (Sampford) <i>is informed that there is no charge for the
+ insertion of Queries, &amp;c. Will he oblige us by describing the
+ communications to which he refers?</i></p>
+
+ <p>F. S. A., <i>who asks the origin of</i> tick, <i>is referred to</i>
+ Vol. iii., pp. 357. 409. 502.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Ignorant.</span> <i>The</i> Staffordshire Knot <i>is
+ the badge or cognizance of the Earls of Stafford: see</i> Vol. viii., p.
+ 454.</p>
+
+ <p>J. S. A. <i>will find the information he desires respecting the</i>
+ Extraordinary North Briton <i>in a valuable communication from</i> <span
+ class="sc">Mr. Crossley</span>, "N. &amp; Q.," Vol. iii., p. 432.</p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">Index to Volume the Eighth.</span>&mdash;<i>This is
+ in a very forward state, and will, we trust, be ready for delivery
+ with</i> No. 221. <i>on the</i> 21<i>st of January.</i></p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">"Notes and Queries,"</span> Vols. i. to vii.,
+ <i>price Three Guineas and a Half.&mdash;Copies are being made up and may
+ be had by order.</i></p>
+
+ <p><span class="sc">"Notes and Queries"</span> <i>is published at noon on
+ Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that
+ night's parcels and deliver them to their Subscribers on the
+ Saturday.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY (being the First Part of a new
+ Volume) contains the following articles:&mdash;1. The Princess
+ (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth a Prisoner at Woodstock. 2. On supposed
+ Apparitions of the Virgin Mary; and particularly at La Salette. 3. Sir
+ Walter Raleigh at Sherborne. 4. Manners and Morals of the University of
+ Cambridge during the last Century. 5. English Sketches by Foreign
+ Artists&mdash;Max Schlesinger's Saunterings in and about London. 6.
+ Richard Baxter's Pulpit at Kidderminster (with a Plate). 7. Cambridge
+ Improvements, 1853. 8. The Toxaris of Lucian. Correspondence of Sylvanus
+ Urban: English Physicians in Russia&mdash;Knights Banneret&mdash;Sir
+ Constantine Phipps and Sir William Phips&mdash;Diaries of Dr. Stukeley,
+ &amp;c. With Notes of the Month; Historical and Miscellaneous Reviews;
+ Reports of Antiquarian and Literary Societies; Historical Chronicle; and
+ <span class="sc">Obituary</span>, including Memoirs of the Queen of
+ Portugal, the Duke of Beaufort, the Countess of Newburgh, Lord Cloncurry,
+ Rear-Adm. Pasco, Bickham Escott, Esq., Wm. Gardiner, Esq., Mrs. Opie, Mr.
+ Jas. Trubshaw, C.E., Mr. Samuel Williams, &amp;c. &amp;c. Price
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+
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+ delivered to the Mutual Improvement Society of Welford, by FREDERICK COX,
+ ESQ., one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society.</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>GEORGE BELL, London.</p>
+ <p>T. C. BROWNE, Leicester.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>Just published, 12mo., 4<i>s.</i></p>
+
+ <p>JANUS, LAKE POEMS, &amp;c., and other Poems, by DAVID HOLT.</p>
+
+ <p>London: W. PICKERING, Piccadilly; and GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet
+ Street.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>Demy 8vo., 2<i>s.</i>; cloth gilt, 3<i>s.</i></p>
+
+ <p>THE HISTORY OF MILLWALL, commonly called the Isle of Dogs; including
+ Notices of the West India Docks and City Canal, and Notes on Poplar,
+ Blackwall, Limehouse, and Stepney. By B.&nbsp;H. COWPER.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+ BLAINE, ESQ., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+ <p>JESSE'S COUNTRY LIFE. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6<i>s.</i></p>
+
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+
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+
+ <p>JUST PUBLISHED.&mdash;A CATALOGUE of VALUABLE BOOKS, including a
+ portion of the Library of the RIGHT HON. WARREN HASTINGS, now on Sale by
+ THOMAS KERSLAKE, Bookseller, Bristol. (Franked for One Postage
+ Stamp.)</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>VIEWS IN LONDON. STEREOSCOPES AND STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES.</p>
+
+ <p>BLAND &amp; LONG, 153. FLEET STREET, OPTICIANS and PHILOSOPHICAL
+ INSTRUMENT MAKERS, invite attention to their Stock of STEREOSCOPES of all
+ Kinds, and in various Materials; also, to their New and Extensive
+ Assortment of STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES for the same, in DAGUERREOTYPE, on
+ PAPER, and TRANSPARENT ALBUMEN PICTURES on GLASS, including Views of
+ London, Paris, the Rhine, Windsor, &amp;c. These Pictures, for minuteness
+ of Detail and Truth in the Representation of Natural Objects, are
+ unrivalled.</p>
+
+ <p>BLAND &amp; LONG, Opticians, 153. Fleet Street, London.</p>
+
+ <p>*** "Familiar Explanation of the Phenomena" sent on Application.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>PULLEYN'S COMPENDIUM.</p>
+
+ <p>One Volume, crown 8vo., bound in cloth, price 6<i>s.</i></p>
+
+ <p>THE ETYMOLOGICAL COMPENDIUM; or, PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINS AND INVENTIONS:
+ relating to</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Language, Literature, and Government.</p>
+ <p>Architecture and Sculpture.</p>
+ <p>Drama, Music, Painting, and Scientific Discoveries.</p>
+ <p>Articles of Dress, &amp;c.</p>
+ <p>Titles, Dignities, &amp;c.</p>
+ <p>Names, Trades, Professions.</p>
+ <p>Parliament, Laws, &amp;c.</p>
+ <p>Universities and Religious Sects.</p>
+ <p>Epithets and Phrases.</p>
+ <p>Remarkable Customs.</p>
+ <p>Games, Field Sports.</p>
+ <p>Seasons, Months, and Days of the Week.</p>
+ <p>Remarkable Localities, &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>By WILLIAM PULLEYN.</p>
+
+ <p>The Third Edition, revised and improved,</p>
+
+ <p>By MERTON A. THOMS, ESQ.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+ <p>"The additions to this book indicate the editor to be his father's own
+ son. He deals in folk lore, chronicles old customs and popular sayings,
+ and has an eye to all things curious and note-worthy. The book tells
+ everything."&mdash;<i>Gentleman's Magazine.</i></p>
+
+ <p>"The book contains a vast amount of curious information and useful
+ memoranda."&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+
+ <p>"An invaluable manual of amusement and information."&mdash;<i>Morning
+ Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+ <p>"This is a work of great practical usefulness. It is a <i>Notes and
+ Queries</i> in miniature.... The revision which the present edition of it
+ has undergone has greatly enhanced its original
+ value."&mdash;<i>Era.</i></p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+ <p>London: WILLIAM TEGG &amp; CO., 85. Queen Street, Cheapside.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>NOW READY, MR. DOD'S PEERAGE, &amp;c.</p>
+
+ <p>New Edition for 1854; thoroughly revised, with many Improvements.</p>
+
+ <p>PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, KNIGHTAGE, &amp;c., for 1854 (Fourteenth Year):
+ by CHARLES R. DOD, Esq., Author of "The Parliamentary Companion,"
+ "Electoral Facts," &amp;c. Fcp. 8vo., handsomely bound in cloth,
+ gilt.</p>
+
+ <p>WHITTAKER &amp; CO., Ave-Maria Lane.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p><!-- Page 23 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page23"></a>{23}</span></p>
+
+<h3>WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE
+AND ANNUITY SOCIETY.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">Founded A.D. 1842.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p><i>Directors.</i></p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>H. E. Bicknell, Esq.</p>
+ <p>T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P.</p>
+ <p>G. H. Drew, Esq.</p>
+ <p>W. Evans, Esq.</p>
+ <p>W. Freeman, Esq.</p>
+ <p>F. Fuller, Esq.</p>
+ <p>J. H. Goodhart, Esq.</p>
+ <p>T. Grissell, Esq.</p>
+ <p>J. Hunt, Esq.</p>
+ <p>J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.</p>
+ <p>E. Lucas, Esq.</p>
+ <p>J. Lys Seager, Esq.</p>
+ <p>J. B. White, Esq.</p>
+ <p>J. Carter Wood, Esq.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p><i>Trustees.</i>&mdash;W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq., T. Grissell, Esq.</p>
+ <p><i>Physician.</i>&mdash;William Rich. Basham, M.D.</p>
+ <p><i>Bankers.</i>&mdash;Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.</p>
+
+ <p>POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary
+ difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application
+ to suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed
+ in the Prospectus.</p>
+
+ <p>Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100<i>l.</i>, with a Share
+ in three-fourths of the Profits:&mdash;</p>
+
+
+<table width="17%" class="nob" summary="Specimens of Rates" title="Specimens of Rates">
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left; width:57%">
+ <p>Age</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right; width:14%">
+ <p><i>£</i></p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right; width:14%">
+ <p><i>s.</i></p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right; width:14%">
+ <p><i>d.</i></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left">
+ <p>17</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>1</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>14</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>4</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left">
+ <p>22</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>1</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>18</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>8</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left">
+ <p>27</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>2</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>4</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>5</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left">
+ <p>32</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>2</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>10</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>8</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left">
+ <p>37</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>2</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>18</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>6</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:left">
+ <p>42</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>3</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>8</p>
+ </td>
+ <td class="nob" style="text-align:right">
+ <p>2</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+ <p>ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.</p>
+
+ <p>Now ready, price 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, Second Edition, with material
+ additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON
+ BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land
+ Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building
+ Companies, &amp;c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and
+ Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life
+ Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>ALLEN'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing Size, Prices, and
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+ General Circulation.</p>
+
+<table class="nob">
+<tr><td style="text-align:right" colspan="2"><i>s.</i></td><td style="text-align:right">&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>d.</i></td></tr>
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+<tr><td>Private Devotions (Spinckes)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Imitation of Christ (à Kempis)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Manual of Prayer for the Young (Ken)</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Golden Grove (Taylor)</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">9</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Life of Ambrose Bonwicke</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Life of Bishop Bull (Nelson)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
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+<tr><td>Selections from Hooker (Keble)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Practical Christian (Sherlock). Part I.<br />
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+<tr><td>Learn to Live (Sutton)</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Doctrine of the English Church (Heylin)</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Holy Living (Bp. Taylor)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Holy Dying (Bp. Taylor)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Tracts on the Church (Jones of Nayland)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Figurative Language of Holy Scripture &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
+(Jones of Nayland)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Confessions of St. Augustine</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Exposition of the Catechism (Nicholson)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Thoughts on Religion (Pascal)</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Wilson on the Lord's Supper</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Wilson's Sacra Privata</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
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+
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+
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+<table class="nob">
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+<tr><td>Words of Advice and Warning, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Baptism, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Chief Truths, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Church Service, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Holy Catholic Church, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Tracts on the Ten Commandments, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Confirmation, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>The Lord's Supper, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Meditation and Payer, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Tracts for Female Penitents, limp</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Tracts on the Prayer Book, cloth</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
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+<tr><td>Parochial Tales, cloth, gilt</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Tracts for Cottagers, cloth, gilt</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Devotions for the Sick, cloth</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>THE PENNY POST for 1853 is now ready, bound in cloth, lettered, with
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+
+<hr class="short" />
+
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+
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+
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+ Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.&mdash;Saturday, January 7.
+ 1854.</p>
+
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+
+A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM.
+
+ "_Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque
+ trouvaille a faire, meme dans ce qui a ete le plus visite_.--Henry
+ PATIN.
+
+I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its
+bibliographic peculiarities--which may almost pass for romance.
+
+It is a _Scottish_ work with regard to the family connexion of its author:
+it is an _Irish_ work with regard to the place of his nativity. It is an
+_English_ work as to the scenes which it represents; a _French_ work as to
+the language in which it was written; a _Dutch_ work as to the country in
+which it came to light. It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since
+borne the name of its author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it
+has been twice printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as
+fiction: it is now believed to be history.
+
+But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must not
+add to the number. The work to which I allude is the _Memoires du comte de
+Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton_.
+
+The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work remind me
+of my _portefeuille Hamiltonien_, and impose on me the task of a partial
+transcription of its contents.
+
+Of the numerous editions of the _Memoires de Grammont_ as recorded by
+Brunet, Renouard, or Querard, or left unrecorded by those celebrated
+bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to the critical
+examination of future editors:
+
+ 1. "_Memoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant
+ particulierement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le
+ regne de Charles II._ A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12^o, pp. 4
+ + 428.
+
+ "AVIS DU LIBRAIRE.--Il seroit inutile de recommander ici la lecture des
+ memoires qui composent ce volume: le titre seul de _Memoires du comte
+ de Grammont_ reveillera sans doute la curiosite du public pour un homme
+ qui lui est deja si connu d'ailleurs, tant par la reputation qu'il a
+ scu se faire, que par les differens portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de
+ Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs ouvrages; et l'on ne doute
+ nullement qu'il ne recoive, avec beaucoup de plaisir, un livre, dans
+ lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il en a bien voulu
+ raconter lui-meme a celui qui a pris la peine de dresser ces memoires.
+
+ "Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent
+ particulie[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous
+ le regne de Charles II; et, comme on y decouvre quantite de choses, qui
+ ont ete tenues cachees jusqu'a present, et qui font voir jusqu'a quel
+ exces on a porte le dereglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le
+ morceau le moins interessant de ces memoires.
+
+ "On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a recue de Paris:
+ et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a ete
+ possible."
+
+The above is the _first_ edition. The imprint is fictitious. It was much
+used by the Elzevirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second edition, with
+the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de Sardiere, No. 939.).
+The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716. The _avis_ is omitted
+in that edition, and in all the later impressions which I have seen. Its
+importance as a history of the publication induces one to revive it. There
+is also an edition printed at Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.);
+and another at La Haye in 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits
+the edition of 1713. Renouard and Querard notice it too briefly.
+
+ 2. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
+ Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentee d'un discours preliminaire mele
+ de prose et de vers, par le meme auteur, et d'un avertissement
+ contenant quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton._ A Paris,
+ chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, a la croix d'or. 1746." 12^o. pp.
+ 24 + 408.
+
+ "AVERTISSEMENT. Le public a fait un accueil si favorable a ces
+ _Memoires_, que nous avons cru devoir en procurer une nouvelle edition.
+ Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, tres-piquantes par
+ elles-memes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse d'Angleterre sous le
+ regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs ecrits d'une maniere si vive
+ et si ingenieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de plaire infiniment,
+ quand la matiere en seroit moins interessante.
+
+ "Le heros de ces _Memoires_ a trouve dans le comte Hamilton un
+ historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la
+ meme main a qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappes au meme
+ coin.
+
+ "Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mele de prose et de
+ vers, ou l'on exagere la difficulte qu'il y a de bien representer le
+ comte de Grammont. On reconnoitra facilement que ce discours est du
+ meme auteur que les _Memoires_, et qu'il devoit naturellement en {4}
+ orner le frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en
+ apprecier le merite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un gout
+ sur et delicat le comparent au _Voyage de Chapelle_, et qu'ils y
+ trouvent les memes graces, le meme naturel et la meme legerete.
+
+ "Il ne nous reste plus qu'a dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-meme, auteur
+ de ces memoires, et du discours qui les precede.
+
+ "Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, etoit de l'ancienne et illustre
+ maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il naquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pere le
+ chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi
+ duc de Chatelleraud en France.
+
+ "Sa mere etoit madame Marie Butler, soeur du duc d'Ormond, viceroi
+ d'Irlande, et grand maitre de la maison du roi Charles.
+
+ "Dans les revolutions qui arriverent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent
+ le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frere qui passerent en France. Ils y
+ amenerent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit a peine que de naitre.
+
+ "Lorsque le roi fut retabli sur son trone, il ramena en Angleterre les
+ jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les memoires de Grammont combien
+ cette cour etoit brillante; la curiosite y attira le comte de Grammont.
+ Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas a sentir le pouvoir
+ de ses charmes, il l'epousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'_Antoine_
+ avoit pour sa soeur, qui l'engagea a faire plusieurs voyages en France,
+ ou il etoit eleve, et ou il a passe une partie de sa vie.
+
+ "M. Antoine Hamilton etant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en
+ Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ebranler ni sa religion, ni la
+ fidelite qu'il devoit a son roi.
+
+ "Le roi Jaques etant monte sur le trone, il lui donna un regiment
+ d'infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince,
+ ayant ete oblige de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la
+ famille royale en France. C'est-la et pendant le long sejour qu'il y a
+ fait, qu'il a compose les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de
+ reputation. Il mourut a S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands
+ sentimens de piete, et apres avoir recu les derniers sacremens. Il
+ etoit age alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a merite les regrets de tous ceux
+ qui avoient le bonheur de le connoitre. Ne serieux, il avoit dans
+ l'esprit tous les agremens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de
+ louanges, a ces agremens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit
+ toutes les qualitez du coeur."
+
+If the above _avertissement_ first appeared in 1746, which I have much
+reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The
+biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later
+memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moreri of 1759, we have it almost _verbatim_,
+but taken from the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1749. Neither
+Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Querard notice the edition of 1746. The copy
+which I have examined has the book-plate G. III. R.
+
+ 3. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton_. 1760."
+ [De l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavee, 1760.] 12^o. I. partie, pp. 36 +
+ 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340.
+
+This edition has the same _avertissement_ as that of 1746. The imprint is
+M.DCC.LX. The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the
+water-mark _Auvergne_ 1749. At the end of the second part appears, _De
+l'imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavee_, 1760. This must be M. Francois Didot of
+Paris. I find the same colophon in the _Bibliographie instructive_, 1763-8.
+v. 631. This very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic
+trio!
+
+ 4. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
+ Hamilton_. _Nouvelle edition_, _augmentee de notes et d'eclaircissemens
+ necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole_. Imprimee a Strawberry-Hill. 1772."
+ 4^o, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits.
+
+ [Dedication.] "A madame....
+
+ "L'editeur vous consacre cette edition, comme un monument de son
+ amitie, de son admiration, et de son respect; a vous, dont les graces,
+ l'esprit, et le gout retracent au siecle present le siecle de Louis
+ quatorze et les agremens de l'auteur de ces memoires."
+
+Such are the inscriptions on the _Strawberry-Hill gem_. Much has been said
+of its brilliancy--and so, for the sake of novelty, I shall rather dwell on
+its flaws.
+
+The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at
+Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of
+which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions--now for its
+flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had to insert
+_eight_ accents to make decent French of it! The _avis_ is a mere medley of
+fragments: I could not ask a compositor to set it up! The _avertissement_
+is copied, without a word of intimation to that effect, from the edition of
+1746. The notes to the _epitre_ are also copied from that edition, except
+_L'abbe de Chaulieu_; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same
+source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in
+part taken from an erroneous printed _Key_. Where are the
+_eclaircissements_? I find none except a list of proper names--of which
+about one-third part is omitted!
+
+In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the _Manuel du
+libraire_, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the _avis_ prefixed to
+the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_, 1812; in quoting Querard, to _La
+France litteraire_, 1827-39. The other references are to sale catalogues.
+The titles of the books described, and the extracts, are given _literatim_,
+and, except as above noted, with the same accentuation and punctuation.
+
+To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French
+text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made.
+That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque!
+
+The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of the
+editions of 1713 and 1746--the rectification of the names of persons {5}
+and places--a revision of the punctuation--and a strict conformity, as to
+general orthography and accentuation, with the _Dictionnaire de l'Academie
+francaise_, as edited in 1835. The substance of the _avis_ of 1713 might be
+stated in a preface; and the _avertissement_ of 1746, a clever composition,
+would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt
+its value may consult the _Grand dictionnaire historique_, and the
+_Biographie universelle_. As one hundred and sixty persons are noticed in
+the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would require much
+research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave would, however, be
+very serviceable--more so, I conceive, than the printed notes of M. Horace
+Walpole.
+
+As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I shall
+conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid the
+_jolie edition_ printed at Paris by F. A. Didot, _par ordre de monseigneur
+le comte d'Artois_, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen of editorship.
+Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a piratical
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+portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be chiefly
+copies of prints--not _d'apres des tableaux originaux_. The most desirable
+editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772, as a _curiosity_; 3.
+That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812, 18^o. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by
+M. Renouard in 1812, 8^o. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms
+part of the _Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton_ in 3 vols. It seldom occurs
+for sale.
+
+BOLTON CORNEY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE "ANCREN RIWLE."
+
+The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise on
+the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society,
+under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable, and
+both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who are
+interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in the
+subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably
+executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks on
+the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton is
+unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen
+College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original
+vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by
+permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and
+after reading and making extracts from it[1], I came to the same conclusion
+as Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the
+internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts
+containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that
+Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original
+author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have
+not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident
+that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop
+Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the
+oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made in
+it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the printed
+edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been, with
+advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are passed
+over. Thus, at p. 8., for _unweote_ the second hand has _congoun_; at p.
+62., for _herigen_ it has _preisen_; at p. 90., for _on cheafle_, it reads
+_o muthe_, &c. The original hand has also some remarkable variations, which
+would cause a suspicion that this was the first draft of the author's work.
+Thus, at p. 12., for _scandle_, the first hand has _schonde_; at p. 62.,
+for _baldeliche_ it reads _bradliche_; at p. 88., for _nout for_, it has
+_anonden_, and the second hand _aneust_; at p. 90., for _sunderliche_ it
+reads _sunderlepes_, &c. All these, and many other curious variations, are
+not noticed in the printed edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written,
+in a hand of the time of Edward I., as follows: "_Datum abbatie et
+conventui de Leghe per Dame M. de Clare._" The lady here referred to was
+doubtless Maud de Clare, second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford
+and Gloucester, who, at the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known
+to have changed the Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an
+abbess and nuns of the same order; and it was probably at the same period
+she bestowed this volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop
+Poore, who died in 1237, might have been the original author of the _Ancren
+Riwle_, is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error
+as to Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to
+Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the fly-leaves
+of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their respective
+contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is more blamable,
+and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but (as remarked by
+Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of the work. The real
+fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged Latin version of the
+seven books of the _Riwle_ now preserved in Magdalen College, and this
+supposition may well enough be reconciled with the words of Leland, who
+says of him,--
+
+ "Edidit inter caetera, libros _septem_ de Vita Solitaria, {6} ad
+ Virgines Tarentinas, Duriae cultrices."--_Comment_., p. 316.
+
+A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian collection
+(Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been recovered from
+the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of 1731. I am
+happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the manuscript
+marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of the _Riwle_,
+made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing with the vernacular
+text), has been entirely restored, except that the top margins of the
+leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This damage has,
+unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the treatise, and the
+title given us by Smith is copied partly from James's note. This copy of
+the French version appears to be unique, and is the more interesting from
+its having a note at the end (now half obliterated by the fire), stating
+that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, whose motto is
+also added, "_Plesance. M [mil]. en vn_." The personage in question was
+Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and wife of
+Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as a nun in the convent at Barking
+in 1399. Is any other instance known of the use of this motto? Before I
+conclude these brief remarks, I may mention a _fifth_ copy of the _Ancren
+Riwle_, which has escaped the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the
+enormous folio manuscript of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon
+MS., in the Bodleian Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and
+occurs at pp. 371^b.--392. In the table of contents prefixed to this volume
+it is entitled "The Roule of Reclous;" and although the phraseology is
+somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS. Cleopatra C. vi, than
+with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton's edition is printed. This copy is
+not complete, some leaves having been cut out in the sixth book, and the
+scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed edition.
+
+It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task of
+editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same age as
+the _Ancren Riwle_, still existing in various manuscripts. One of the
+homilies, entitled "Sawles Warde," in the Bodley MS. 34., Cott. MS. Titus
+D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17A. xxvii., is very curious, and well
+deserves to be printed.
+
+F. MADDEN.
+
+British Museum.
+
+[Footnote 1: At p. viii. of Mr. Morton's preface, for "yerze" (eye), my
+extracts read "yze."]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY, A.D. 1650-51.
+
+At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant
+children?" is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds, it
+may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order
+addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which
+applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that
+some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those
+with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment between
+vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of
+observation.
+
+ "BY THE MAYOR.
+
+ "Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to put
+ in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants, and
+ passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great scandall
+ and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These are
+ therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call
+ before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to
+ charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty
+ of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant
+ that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end
+ the said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the
+ several persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are
+ further to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not
+ fit to work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where
+ they dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging,
+ shal give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she
+ were taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. _And for
+ children under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give
+ an account of their parents, the parish where they are found are to
+ provide for them; and for those which shall bee found lying under
+ stalls, having no habitation or parents (from five to nine years old),
+ are to be sent to the Wardrobe House_[2], _to be provided for by the
+ corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be
+ sent to Bridewel._ And for men or women who are able to work and goe
+ begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be
+ passed to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken
+ againe, they are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according
+ to the discretion of the governours. _And for those persons that shal
+ be found to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking,
+ those children are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel,
+ and the persons so hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed
+ away, or kept at work there, according to the governour's discretion._
+ And for al other vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to
+ be forthwith sent down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected,
+ according to the statute laws of this commonwealth, except before
+ excepted; and the president and governours of Bridewel are hereby
+ desired to meet twice every week to see to the execution of this
+ Precept. _And the steward of the workehouse called the Wardrobe, is {7}
+ authorised to receive into that house such children as are of the age
+ between five and nine, as is before specified and limited_; and the
+ said steward is from time to time to acquaint the corporation for the
+ poor, what persons are brought in, to the end they may bee provided
+ for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January, 1650.
+
+ SADLER."
+
+JOHN BRUCE.
+
+[Footnote 2: I suppose this to have been the ancient building known by the
+name of The Royal, or The Tower Royal, used for a time as the Queen's
+Wardrobe. It will be seen that it was occupied in 1650 as a workhouse.]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.
+
+ Sir,
+
+ I send you, as a New Year's Gift for your "N. & Q.," transcripts of
+ half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose
+ correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve,
+
+ Yours faithfully,
+ HENRY ELLIS.
+
+British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853.
+
+I.
+
+_Dean Swift to_ * * * * * * *.
+
+[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. _Orig_.]
+
+ Belcamp, Mar. 14th.
+
+ Sir,
+
+ Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his
+ house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a
+ plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him
+ in the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks
+ to cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no
+ longer. Mr. Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object
+ to be received into Dr. Stephen's Hospital. The boy tells his story
+ naturally, and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him
+ curable, and it be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you
+ will receive him.
+
+ I am, Sir,
+ Your most humble Servt.
+ JONATH. SWIFT.
+
+II.
+
+_The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley_.
+
+[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. _Orig_.]
+
+ Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718].
+
+ Worthy Sir
+
+ I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for
+ me she may be very easy: tho' I could wish for the sake of the
+ University (tho' I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation)
+ that you could recover the Book, or at least could find where it is
+ lodged, that Mr. Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume,
+ may be done.
+
+ If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a great
+ discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and began
+ to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of Ely's
+ Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been
+ printed by Guttenberg; for tho' it be printed at Ments, yet there is no
+ name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust's
+ Tullie's Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the
+ first on vellum, the other on paper.
+
+ May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as
+ Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of
+ Edw. the Sixth's first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether
+ either of them be printed by Grafton, the King's Printer? I have seen
+ four or five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by
+ Grafton, except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a
+ great Rarity, if it be likewise wanting to my Lord's Collection. It
+ varies from all the other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest,
+ I think, in 1549. One reason of my enquiry is, because I want the
+ Title, for the date is at the end of the Book, and indeed twice; both
+ on the end of the Communion Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your
+ pardon for so small an enquiry, whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg
+ and Nic. Jenson. My business consists much in trifles.
+
+ I am, Sir,
+ Your most ob. humble
+ Servant,
+ THO. BAKER.
+
+ To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the
+ Riding Hood Shop, the corner
+ of Chandois and Bedford Streets,
+ Covent Garden,
+ London.
+
+A note in Wanley's hand says, "Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small
+scores."
+
+III.
+
+_Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to the Rev. Mr. Amory of
+Taunton, dated Dunsland, March_ 7, 1731.
+
+[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.]
+
+ I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation
+ to Charles the Second's Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of
+ the Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly
+ transacted that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it
+ were sent him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after
+ the thing was finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these
+ Letters and other papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his
+ History, and which were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was
+ chancellor, told Morrice's Grandson that if he would file a Bill in
+ Chancery, he would endeavour to get them; but young Morrice having
+ deserted the Whig Interest, was {8} prevailed upon to let it drop. This
+ I know to be fact, for I had it not only from the last-mentioned
+ Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son of the
+ Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity of
+ searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one
+ time or other I design to publish together with the account of that
+ affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him
+ say that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the
+ least of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the
+ Nation, had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke
+ of York) to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to
+ their Infamy.
+
+(_To be continued._)
+
+ * * * * *
+
+BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.
+
+On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village and
+church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested by
+the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect position
+on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They proved to be
+those which once had covered and protected the grave of the good Archbishop
+Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that parish, and that
+of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it appeared that their
+remains had been deposited within a small chapel on the south side of the
+chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family, of Broadhurst, in the
+parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither in 1674, and resided with
+his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it
+may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly mentioned by the biographers of
+Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an ancient mansion, the residence
+formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated about a mile north of the village
+of Horsted. There it was that Leighton made his will, in February, 1683;
+but his death occurred, it will be remembered, in singular accordance with
+his desire often expressed, at an inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London.
+
+The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an arch
+now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a school-room;
+more recently, however, either through its becoming out of repair, or from
+some other cause, the little structure was demolished. The large slabs
+which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his brother were taken up
+and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now covers the space thus
+thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to mark the position of
+the graves, which in all probability, ere many years elapse, will be
+disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the ashes of Leighton
+scattered to the winds.
+
+In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies of
+bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so well
+carried out by MR. MARKLAND in regard to the grave of Bishop Ken, shall we
+not make an effort to preserve from desecration and oblivion the
+resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton for his learning and piety, so
+worthy to be held in honoured remembrance for his high principles and his
+consistent conduct in an evil age?
+
+ALBERT WAY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_Grammars, &c. for Public Schools._--Would it not be desirable for some
+correspondents of "N. & Q." to furnish information respecting grammars,
+classics, and other works which have been written for the various public
+schools? Such information might be useful to book collectors; and would
+also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose learned masters have
+prepared such books. My contribution to the list is small: but I remember a
+valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev. ---- Hook, formerly head master
+of the College School at Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as
+also a peculiar English grammar prepared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master
+of St. Mary de Crypt School, in the same place, for the use of that school.
+I also possess a copy (1640) of the _Romanae Historiae Anthologia_, for the
+use of Abingdon School, and _Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of
+the Hebrews_ (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written
+after he ceased to be master of the schools.
+
+P. H. FISHER.
+
+Stroud.
+
+"_To captivate._"--Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the Americans
+(January 9th, 1819), says:
+
+ "They sometimes, I see, use the word _captivate_ thus: 'Five or six
+ ships captivated,' 'Five or six ships captivated.'"
+
+Originally, the words _to captivate_ were synonymous with _to capture_, and
+the expression was used with reference to warlike operations. To captivate
+the affections was a secondary use of the phrase. The word is used in the
+original sense in many old English books. It is not used so now in the
+United States.
+
+UNEDA.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+_Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster._--Under the year A.D. 782, the
+translator informs us that "Hirenes and _his_ son Constantine became
+emperors." Such an emperor is not to be found {9} in the annals of
+Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge, who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon,
+had referred to him on this occasion, he would probably have found that the
+Empress Irene, a name dear to the reverencers of images, was the person
+meant. The original Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this
+empress, who is considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the
+deposition and blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily
+forgotten.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.--_
+
+ "A la Saint-Antoine (17th January)
+ Les jours croissent le repas d'un moine."
+
+ "A la Saint-Barnabe (11th June)
+ La faux au pre."
+
+ "A la Sainte-Catherine (25th November)
+ Tout bois prend racine."
+
+ "Passe la Saint-Clement (23rd November)
+ Ne seme plus froment."
+
+ "Si l'hiver va droit son chemin,
+ Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.)
+
+ "S'il n'arreste tant ne quant,
+ Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Clement." (23rd Nov.)
+
+ "Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombree,
+ Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Andre." (30th Nov.)
+
+CEYREP.
+
+_Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.--_
+
+ "Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus
+ Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua.
+ Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus.
+ Caelum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris.
+ Ob^t. 27 Mar. 1624. Aet. 77."
+
+Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine:
+
+ "Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole,
+ Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul;
+ But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name,
+ Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame.
+ A priest of priests, inferior was to none,
+ Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run.
+ Thus ends the record of this pious man;
+ Go and do likewise, reader, if you can."
+
+C. K. P.
+
+Newport, Essex.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE.
+
+In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund
+Burke," which appeared in the _Athenaeum_ of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th (and
+to which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. & Q." as have
+not yet seen it), the writer observes:
+
+ "There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to infer
+ from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or
+ document of any kind--except a mysterious fragment of one
+ letter--relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long after
+ Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from
+ parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother,
+ or brother to sister."
+
+And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference
+drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the grounds
+which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in writings is to
+call attention to a source from which, if any such letters exist, they may
+yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of professed collectors
+of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be conceived that the
+destroyer of these materials for the history of the Burkes, be he who he
+may, can have got _all_ the family correspondence into his possession. On
+the other, it is far from improbable that in some of the collections to
+which I have alluded, some letters, notes, or documents may exist,
+treasured by the possessors as mere autographs; but which might, if given
+to the world, serve to solve many of those mysteries which envelope the
+early history of Edmund Burke. The discovery of documents of such a
+character seems to be the special province of "N. & Q.," and I hope,
+therefore, although this letter has extended far beyond the limits I
+originally contemplated, you will insert it, and so permit me to put this
+Query to autograph collectors, "Have you any documents illustrative of the
+Burkes?" and to add as a Note, "If so, print them!"
+
+N. O.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Farrant's Anthem._--From what source did Farrant take the words of his
+well-known anthem, "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake?"
+
+C. F. S.
+
+_Ascension Day Custom._--What is the origin of the custom which still
+obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting the clergy
+with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day?
+
+C. F. S.
+
+_Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections._--In Snelling's tract on
+_Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver Coins_ (1769), p. 45., it is
+stated, in the description of a gold Coin of Elizabeth, that it is "unique,
+formerly in the collection of Thomas Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the
+collection of Thomas Knight, Esq., who purchased the whole cabinet."--Can
+any of your readers inform me who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his
+collection is still in existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what
+manner? I am not aware of any sale catalogue under his name.
+
+J. B. B.
+
+_"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."_--I have met with, and
+sometimes quoted, this line. {10} Who is its author, and in what poem does
+it occur?
+
+J. W. T.
+
+Dewsbury.
+
+_Lord Fairfax._--In the _Peerage of Scotland_ I find this entry:
+
+ "Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of
+ Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship
+ resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States."
+
+Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of that
+family taking a part in Scotch affairs. _Cameron_ is, I suppose, the parish
+of that name in the east of Fife.
+
+I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances, the
+barony was created?
+
+2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in
+Scotland, if they ever held any?
+
+3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? If
+so, is he known and addressed as _Lord_ Fairfax, or how?
+
+4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of the
+United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to exercise
+the functions of a peer of Scotland, _e.g._ in the election of
+representative peers?
+
+5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly
+or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces
+allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the
+roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose
+existence is a denial of the first proposition in the constitution of his
+country?
+
+Perhaps UNEDA, W. W., or some other of your Philadelphia correspondents,
+will be good enough to notice the third of these Queries.
+
+W. H. M.
+
+_Tailless Cats._--A writer in the _New York Literary World_ of Feb. 7,
+1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of tails, which are found
+in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx correspondent will say
+whether this is a fact or a Jonathan.
+
+SHIRLEY HIBBERD.
+
+_Saltcellar._--Can any of your readers gainsay that in saltcellar the
+cellar is a mere corruption of _saliere_? A list of compound words of Saxon
+and French origin might be curious.
+
+H. F. B.
+
+_Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos._--Can any reader of "N. &
+Q." give the _date_ of the grant of arms to Col. William Carlos (who
+assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal Oak," after the
+battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the grant?
+
+[mu].
+
+_Naval Atrocities._--In the article on "Wounds," in the _Encyc. Brit._, 4th
+edition, published 1810, the author, after mentioning the necessity of a
+surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on the character of any wound, adds
+that "this is particularly necessary on board ship, where, as soon as any
+man is pronounced by the surgeon to be mortally wounded, he is forthwith,
+while still living and conscious, thrown overboard," or words to this
+effect, as I quote from memory. That such horrid barbarity was not
+practised in 1810, it is needless to say; and if it had been usual at any
+previous period, Smollett and other writers who have exposed with unsparing
+hand all the defects in the naval system of their day, would have scarcely
+left this unnoticed when they attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing
+ever occurred, even in the worst of times, it must have been an isolated
+case. I have not met elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the
+atrocity recorded in it, and would be glad of more information on the
+subject.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Turlehydes._--During the great famine in Ireland land in 1331, it is said
+that--
+
+ "The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential
+ relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish,
+ called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on
+ shore at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty
+ feet long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of
+ the fish could not see one another."--_The History and Antiquities of
+ the City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts_, by Walter Harris, 1766,
+ p. 265.
+
+This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of which
+still exist. As the term _turlehydes_ is not known to Irish scholars, can
+any of the readers of "N. & Q." say what precise animal is meant by it, or
+give any derivation or reference for the term?
+
+U. U.
+
+Dublin.
+
+_Foreign Orders--Queen of Bohemia._--It is well known that in some foreign
+Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon ladies. Can any of your
+correspondents inform me whether the Order of the Annunciation of Sardinia,
+formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy, at any time conferred its
+decorations upon ladies; and whether the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards
+Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration of any foreign order conferred
+upon her? In a portrait of her she is represented with a star or badge upon
+the upper part of the left arm.
+
+S. E. G.
+
+_Pickard Family._--Is the _Pickard_, or _Picard_, family, a branch of which
+is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If so, who were the _first
+settlers_ in England; and also in what county are they most numerous?
+
+ONE OF THE FAMILY.
+
+Bradford.
+
+{11}
+
+_Irish Chieftains._--Some account of the following, _Historical
+Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and other Irish
+Chieftains_, privately printed, 1843, is requested by
+
+JOHN MARTIN.
+
+Woburn Abbey.
+
+_General Braddock._--Can any of your readers furnish me with information
+relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against Fort Du Quesne,
+and its details, are well known; but I should like to know something more
+of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or two of him, and
+mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think too he was of
+Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of Braddock in
+existence?
+
+SERVIENS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Minor Queries with Answers.
+
+_Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex._--A most extraordinary custom exists, in a
+manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what is called the "Lawless
+Court." This court is held at midnight, by torch-light, in the centre of a
+field, on the first Friday after the 29th Sept., and is presided over by
+the steward of the manor, who, however, appoints a deputy to fulfil this
+part of his duty. The tenants of the manor are obliged to attend to answer
+to their names, when called upon, under pain of a heavy fine, or at all
+events have some one there to respond for them. All the proceedings are
+carried on in a whisper, no one speaking above that tone of voice; and the
+informations as to deaths, names, &c. are entered in a book by the
+president with a piece of charcoal. I may add, the business is not
+commenced until a cock has crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a
+difficult matter to get Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to
+crow, whose fee therefor is 5s.
+
+Now Morant, in his _History of Essex_, merely cursorily mentions this most
+singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin; I should
+therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning it.
+
+RUSSELL GOLE.
+
+ [The singular custom at Rochford is of uncertain origin: in old authors
+ it is spoken of as belonging to the manor of Rayleigh. The following
+ account of "The Lawless Court," at that place, is printed by Hearne
+ from the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. cxxv.:--"The manor of
+ Raylie, in Essex, hath a custome court kept yearly, the Wednesday nexte
+ after Michael's day. The court is kept in the night, and without light,
+ but as the skye gives, att a little hill without the towne, called the
+ King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals, and not with
+ inke. And many men and mannors of greate worth hold of the same, and do
+ suite unto this strange court, where the steward calls them with as low
+ a voice as possibly he may; giving no notice when he goes to the hill
+ to keepe the same court, and he that attends not is deepely amerced, if
+ the steward will. The title and entry of the same court is as
+ followeth, viz.:
+
+ 'Curia de domino rege,
+ Dicta _sine lege_,
+ Tenta est ibidem,
+ Per ejusdem consuetudinem,
+ Ante ortum solis,
+ Luceat nisi polus,
+ Seneschallus solus,
+ Scribit nisi colis.
+ Clamat clam pro rege
+ In curia _sine lege_:
+ Et qui non cito venerit
+ Citius poenitebit:
+ Si venerit cum lumine
+ Errat in regimine.
+ Et dum sine lumine
+ Capti sunt in crimine,
+ Curia sine cura
+ Jurata de injuria
+ Tenta est die Mercuriae
+ prox. post festum S. Michaelis.'"
+
+ Weever, who mentions this custom, says, that he was informed that "this
+ servile attendance was imposed, at the first, upon certaine tenants of
+ divers mannors hereabouts, for conspiring in this place, at such an
+ unseasonable time, to raise a commotion."]
+
+_Motto on old Damask._--Can your correspondents furnish an explanation of
+the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask table napkins which
+were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a shop in the ordinary way,
+but privately, from the family to whom they belonged. I presume the larger
+characters, if put together, will indicate the date of the event, whatever
+that may be, which is referred to in the motto itself.
+
+The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the
+following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as subjoined:
+
+ "SIGNUM PACIS DATUR LORICAE."
+
+the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U's are taken as two V's, and
+written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be explained.
+
+H.
+
+ [The chronogram above, which means "The signal of peace is given to the
+ warrior," relates to the peace proclaimed between England and France in
+ the year 1763. This event is noticed in the _Annual Register_, and in
+ most of our popular histories. Keightley says, "The overtures of France
+ for peace were readily listened to; and both parties being in earnest,
+ the preliminaries were readily settled at Fontainebleau (Nov. 3rd). In
+ spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were approved
+ of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a treaty was
+ finally signed in Paris, Feb. 18, 1763." The napkins were probably a
+ gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary. For the custom of
+ noting the date of a great event by chronograms, see "N. & Q.," Vol.
+ v., p. 585.]
+
+{12}
+
+_Explanation of the Word "Miser."_--Can any of your readers explain how and
+when _miser_ came to get the meaning of an avaricious hoarding man? In
+Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, II. l. 8., it is used in its nearly primary
+sense of "wretch:"
+
+ "Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble _miser's_ sake."
+
+Again, _Faerie Queene_, II. 3. 8.:
+
+ "The _miser_ threw himself, as an offall,
+ Straight at his foot in base humility."
+
+In Milton's _Comus_, which was written about fifty years after the first
+three books of the _Faerie Queene,_ the present signification of the word
+is complete:
+
+ "You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps
+ Of _miser's_ treasure by an outlaw's den,
+ And tell me it is safe, as bid one hope
+ Danger will sink on opportunity," &c.
+
+J. D. GARDNER.
+
+Bottisham.
+
+ [The modern restricted use of the word _miser_ is subsequent to
+ Shakspeare's time for in Part I. _King Henry VI._, Act V. Sc. 4.,
+
+ "Decrepit _miser_! base ignoble wretch!"
+
+ Steevens says has no relation to avarice, but simply means a
+ _miserable_ creature. So in the interlude of _Jacob and Esau_, 1568:
+
+ "But as for these _misers_ within my father's tent."
+
+ Again, in Lord Stirling's tragedy of _Croesus_, 1604:
+
+ "Or think'st thou me of judgement too remiss,
+ A _miser_ that in miserie remains."
+
+ Otway, however, in his _Orphan_, published in 1680, uses it for a
+ covetous person:
+
+ "Though she be dearer to my soul than rest
+ To weary pilgrims, or to _misers_ gold,
+ Rather than wrong Castalio, I'd forget thee."
+
+ So also does Pope:
+
+ "No silver saints by dying _misers_ given,
+ Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heaven."
+
+_"Acis and Galatea."_--Is there any good evidence in support of the
+commonly received opinion that the words to Handel's _Acis and Galatea_
+were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they "are said to have been
+written by Mr. Gay." I have no copy of Burney at hand to refer to; but I
+find the same statement repeated by various other musical historians,
+without, however, any authority being given for it. The words in question
+are not to be found among the _Poems on several Occasions_, by Mr. John
+Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others. Have they ever been included
+in any collective edition of his works?
+
+G. T.
+
+Reading.
+
+ [In the musical catalogue of the British Museum, compiled by Thomas
+ Oliphant, Esq., it is stated that the words to _Acis and Galatea_ "are
+ said to be written, but apparently partly compiled, by John Gay." This
+ serenata is included among Gay's _Poems_ in Dr. Johnson's edition of
+ the _English Poets_, 1790, as well as in Chalmers's edition of 1810,
+ and in the complete edition of _British Poets_, Edinburgh, 1794.]
+
+_Birm-bank._--The bank of a canal opposite to the towing-path is called the
+_birm-bank_. What is the derivation of this?
+
+UNEDA.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+ [The word _birm_ seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. _berme_),
+ which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of three, four, or
+ five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss,
+ designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the earth
+ from filling the foss. Sometimes it is palisaded, and in Holland is
+ generally planted with quickset hedge.]
+
+_General Thomas Gage._--This officer commanded at Boston at the breaking
+out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock. Where can I find
+any details of the remainder of his history?
+
+SERVIENS.
+
+ [An interesting biographical account of General Gage is given in the
+ _Georgian Aera_, vol. ii. p. 67.]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Replies.
+
+RAPPING NO NOVELTY.
+
+(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.)
+
+The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should like to
+know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially as there
+seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other grounds one
+would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the work which he
+quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement, some correspondent
+would be so good as to state whether it has the sanction of Baxter:
+
+ "Mr. Baxter, in his _Historical Discourse of Apparitions_, writes thus:
+ 'There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of
+ my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank,
+ who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall into
+ the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his
+ brother's house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself
+ sober, something knocks at his bed's head, as if one knocked on a
+ wainscot. When they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud
+ noises on other parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have
+ often watched him, and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His
+ brother has often told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman,
+ to attest it, who avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen
+ his shoes under the bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them.
+ They brought the man himself to me, and when we asked {13} him how he
+ dare sin again after such a warning, he had no excuse. But being
+ persons of quality, for some special reason of worldly interest I must
+ not name him.'"--De Foe's _Life of Duncan Campbell_, 2nd ed. p. 107.
+
+After this story, De Foe says:
+
+ "Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself
+ personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or
+ familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of
+ Wiltshire," &c.
+
+But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from
+Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in
+Beaumont's _Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of
+Spirits_, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe's
+saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont "personally," but does anybody know
+anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar
+inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been
+answered.
+
+S. R. MAITLAND.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 535.)
+
+From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's
+Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to MR.
+LATHBURY'S. This volume forms part of a collection of books bequeathed to
+the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A., formerly of Baliol College:
+
+ A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &c. 4to. London. 1762.
+
+In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form "A Prayer for the
+Reformed Churches" is included, which is omitted in all the subsequent
+Forms. This is a copy of it:
+
+ "_A Prayer for the Reformed Churches._
+
+ "O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee,
+ more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be
+ Thy Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect,
+ strengthen, 'stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty
+ wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our
+ Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at
+ present enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted
+ for Righteousness' sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy
+ people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them
+ Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the
+ World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all
+ may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls,
+ Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen."
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1776.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1778.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1780.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1781.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1782.
+
+ A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other days
+ immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all
+ Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &c., during
+ his Majesty's present Indisposition. 1788.
+
+The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch, father
+of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection:
+
+ "Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St.
+ Michael's, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself
+ and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society
+ for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity
+ Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and
+ saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the
+ cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of
+ more than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants
+ preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet
+ Street."--April 23, 1789.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King's Recovery. 1789.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1793.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1795.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1796.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important
+ Victories. 1797.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1798.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &c. 1798.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet,
+ Aug. 1. 1798.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H. R. H. the
+ Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1799.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1800.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1801.
+
+ Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801.
+
+ Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1803.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1804.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1805.
+
+ Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson's Victory. 1805.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1806.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1807.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1808.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1809.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1810.
+
+ Form, &c. Fast. 1812.
+
+ Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814.
+
+ Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816.
+
+JOHN MACRAY.
+
+Oxford.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+{14}
+
+CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 174.)
+
+There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is one
+full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth
+mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only of
+late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they are
+compared together, the more important and the more striking do the
+resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek
+literature applies equally to Latin, "that we seem now to have reached that
+point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of the
+same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh step
+in advance." But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and Latin,
+is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman, in his
+_Regal Rome_, has attention to the subject; but his induction does not
+appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion respecting
+the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin. Pritchard's work
+upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but both these authors
+have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of Celtic and Latin
+words; but it is not _merely_ this we want. What is required is a critical
+examination into the comparative structure and formal development of the
+two languages, and this is a work still to be accomplished. The later
+numbers of Bopp's _Comparative Grammar_ are, I believe, devoted to this
+subject, but as they have not been translated, they must be confined to a
+limited circle of English readers, and I have not yet seen any reproduction
+of the views therein contained in the philological literature of England.
+
+As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a large
+induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the pages of "N.
+& Q." might be made useful in supplying "links of connexion" to supply a
+groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude by suggesting one or two
+"links" that I do not remember to have seen elsewhere.
+
+1. Is the root of _felix_ to be found in the Irish _fail_, _fate_; the
+contraction of the dipththong _ai_ or _e_ being analogous to that of
+_amaimus_ into _amemus_?
+
+2. Is it not probable that _Avernus_, if not corrupted from [Greek:
+aornos], is related to _iffrin_, the Irish _inferi_? This derivation is at
+any rate more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with
+[Greek: Acheron].
+
+3. Were the _Galli_, priests of Cybele, so called as being connected with
+fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the Celtic _gal_, a
+flame? The word _Gallus_, a Gaul, is of course the same as the Irish _gal_,
+a stranger.
+
+T. H. T.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 468.)
+
+MR. INGLEBY'S question might easily be the foundation of a geometrical
+paper; but as this would not be a desirable contribution, I will endeavour
+to keep clear of technicalities, in pointing out how the process described
+may give something near to a circle, or may not.
+
+When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two parts
+perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is _symmetrical_ about that
+straight line, which may be called an _axis of symmetry_. Thus every
+diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular oval has two
+axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every regular polygon of an
+_odd_ number of sides has an axis joining each corner to the middle of the
+opposite sides: every regular polygon of an _even_ number of sides has axes
+joining opposite corners, and axes joining the middles of opposite sides.
+
+When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or curvilinear,
+is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of either side which
+are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded figure will of
+course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If another line be
+now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process repeated, the second
+line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first perhaps ceases to be one.
+If the process be then repeated on the first line, this last becomes an
+axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an axis. If this process can be
+indefinitely continued, the cuttings must become smaller and smaller, for
+the following reason. Suppose, at the outset, the boundary point nearest to
+the intersection of the axes is distant from that intersection by, say four
+inches; it is clear that we cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a
+part of the boundary at less than four inches from the intersection. For
+there never is, after any cutting, any approach to the intersection except
+what there already was on the other side of the axis employed, before that
+cutting was made. If then the cuttings should go on for ever, or
+practically until the pieces to be cut off are too small, and _if this take
+place all round_, the figure last obtained will be a good representation of
+a circle of four inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always
+cutting down, at all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we
+can never come nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes.
+
+But it does not follow that the process _will_ go on for ever. We may come
+at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of symmetry at once;
+and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a curvilinear
+boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the proper angle,
+it would happen that we should arrive at a {15} _regular_ curved polygon,
+having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process would then stop.
+
+I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere
+rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is
+still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the
+ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters
+alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so
+many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval.
+But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a
+perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its
+sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be
+that of a circle.
+
+Suppose, as in MR. INGLEBY'S question, that the creases are not at right
+angles to each other; supposing the eye and the scissors _perfect_, the
+results will be as follows:
+
+First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the mathematicians
+call _incommensurable_ with the whole revolution; that is, suppose that no
+repetition of the angle will produce an _exact_ number of revolutions. Then
+the cutting will go on for ever, and the result will perpetually approach a
+circle. It is easily shown that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has
+two axes of symmetry which make an angle incommensurable with the whole
+revolution.
+
+Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the
+revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be
+repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even, it
+is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd, it
+is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon.
+
+Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the
+creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of the
+creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that fourteen
+repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an exact number of
+revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular polygon of fourteen
+sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had been taken for the
+angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have had thirty-four
+sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that the number of
+ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular appearance.
+
+Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three or
+more axes, whether all passing through one point or not.
+
+A. DE MORGAN.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE BLACK-GUARD.
+
+(Vol. viii., p. 414.)
+
+Some of your correspondents, SIR JAMES E. TENNENT especially, have been
+very learned on this subject, and all have thrown new light on what I
+consider a very curious inquiry. The following document I discovered some
+years ago in the Lord Steward's Offices. Your readers will see its value at
+once; but it may not be amiss to observe, that the name in its present
+application had its origin in the number of masterless boys hanging about
+the verge of the Court and other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and
+palace stables; ready with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct,
+and rob people on foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow
+the Court in its progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope's "link-boys
+vile" are the black-guard boys of the following Proclamation.
+
+PETER CUNNINGHAM.
+
+At the Board of Green Cloth,
+in Windsor Castle,
+this 7th day of May, 1683.
+
+Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and rogues,
+commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose fellowes,
+vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually haunt and
+follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as Wee are
+informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that happened in
+the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently do commit
+divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where they resort,
+to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the prevention of which
+evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby strictly charge and
+command all those so called the Black-guard as aforesaid, with all other
+loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and wanderers, who have
+intruded themselves into His Majesty's Court or stables, that within the
+space of twenty-four houres next after the publishing of this order, they
+depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and such other punishments as by law are
+to be inflicted on them.
+
+ (Signed)
+ ORMOND.
+ H. BULKELEY.
+ H. BROUNCKER.
+ RICH. MASON.
+ STE. FOX.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB.
+
+(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.)
+
+The Calves' Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their doings
+were commemorated in the _Weekly Oracle_ (Vol. viii., p. 315.) of February
+1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii., p. 480.). There is a
+pamphlet, {16} the second edition of which was published in small 4to., in
+1703, entitled:
+
+ "The Secret History of the Calves' Head Club, or, the Republican
+ Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head
+ Heroes in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of
+ January, by their Anthems," &c. &c.
+
+We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work was
+published "to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a certain
+party still among us," and certainly the statements therein, and more than
+all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest hatred--so bitter, so
+intense and malignant, that we feel on reading it that there must be some
+exaggeration.
+
+The author professes to have at first been of opinion "that the story was
+purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious than they
+deserv'd." Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular demonstration
+he does not tell us, but gives us information he received from a
+gentleman--
+
+ "Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their
+ Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was
+ inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as
+ they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em
+ was in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly
+ consisted of Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of
+ the Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry
+ White, formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to
+ sanctify with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said
+ Grace; that after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem,
+ as they impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with
+ wine, or other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious
+ memory of those worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd
+ their country from arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for
+ the mercenary scribler, to which every man contributed according to his
+ zeal for the cause, or the ability of his purse.
+
+ "I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as faithfully
+ as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some persons
+ that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the author
+ of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves' Head
+ Club to be true."
+
+The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given; but
+they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote here.
+They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the serious
+productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically heretical.
+
+EDWARD PEACOCK.
+
+Bottesford Moors.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+_The Calotype Process._--I have made any first essay in the calotype
+process, following DR. DIAMOND'S directions given in "N. & Q.," and using
+Turner's paper, as recommended by him. My success has been quite as great
+as I could expect as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to
+my own want of skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish,
+however, to ask a question as to iodizing the paper. DR. DIAMOND says, lay
+the paper on the solution; then _immediately_ remove it, and lay on the dry
+side on blotting-paper, &c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole
+sheet of paper curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to
+know, therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to
+remain on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on
+removal it will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the
+dry side to pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on
+the solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a great tendency to curl, and
+takes some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows
+it to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the
+glass rod, without floating at all?
+
+Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction, are
+so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given by DR.
+DIAMOND, which are the result of experience, that I am sure he will not
+mind being troubled with a few inquiries relative to them.
+
+C. E. F.
+
+_Hockin's Short Sketch._--Mr. Hockin is so well known as a thoroughly
+practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to the fact of his
+having published a little brochure entitled _How to obtain Positive and
+Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy the latter upon Paper. A
+Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in Photography._ As the question of the
+_alkalinity_ of the nitrate bath is one which has lately been discussed, we
+will give, as a specimen of Mr. Hockin's book, a quotation, showing his
+opinion upon that question:
+
+ "_The sensitizing agent_, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the
+ ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it
+ is thus employed:
+
+ "_The silver or nitrate bath._--Nitrate of silver five drachms,
+ distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion two
+ drachms.
+
+ "Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and
+ filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid
+ with a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being
+ immersed one minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid[3], and test
+ again for a minute; and so on, until a claret red is indicated on the
+ paper. It is necessary to test the bath in a similar manner, frequently
+ adding half a drop to a drop of dilute acid when required. This
+ precaution will prevent the fogging due to alkalinity of the bath, so
+ formidable an obstacle to young hands."
+
+[Footnote 3: "Dilute nitric acid.--Water fifty parts, nitric acid one
+part."]
+
+_Photographic Society's Exhibition._--The Photographic Society opened their
+first Exhibition of {17} Photographs and Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of
+the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk Street, with a _soiree_ on
+Tuesday evening last. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the
+rooms were crowded not only by members of the Society, but by many of the
+most distinguished literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen
+and Prince Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in
+an examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the
+exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it
+afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past year,
+and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater excellence
+might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just one, and
+embodied that given afterwards by the most competent authorities. We have
+not room this week to enter into any details, but can confidently recommend
+our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk Street.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Replies to Minor Queries.
+
+_"Firm was their faith," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 564.).--These lines are to be
+found in a poem called "Morwennae Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by
+Masters in 1846, with the title of _Echoes from Old Cornwall_, and written
+by the Vicar of Morwenstow. I agree with D. M. in the judgment he has
+announced as to their merits; but hitherto they have been but little
+appreciated by the public. A time will come however, when these and other
+compositions of the author will be better known and more duly valued by the
+English mind.
+
+SAXA.
+
+These lines were written on "the Minster of Morwenna," May, 1840, and
+appeared in the _British Magazine_ under the anonymous name _Procul_. Of
+the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P. M. has quoted the second.
+The second line should be read "wise _of_ heart," and the third "_firm_ and
+trusting hands." With your correspondent, I hope the author's name may be
+discovered.
+
+F. R. R.
+
+_Vellum-cleaning_ (Vol. viii., p.340.).--In the Polytechnic Institution
+there are specimens of old deeds, &c., on vellum and paper, beautifully
+cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner Temple Lane, Temple,
+London.
+
+J. McK.
+
+Shoreham.
+
+_Wooden Tombs_ (Vol. viii., p. 255.).--In the church at Brading, Isle of
+Wight--
+
+ "There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William
+ Oglander's chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the
+ rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of
+ these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour
+ of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and
+ gilt, but now disfigured by coats of dirty white."--Barber's
+ Picturesque Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29.
+
+J. McK.
+
+Shoreham.
+
+_Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263_ (Vol. viii., p. 441.).--In the
+_Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 350.,
+there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against Scotland in the
+year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when speaking of the
+annular eclipse, he says:
+
+ "The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between
+ these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to
+ Dr. Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he
+ found that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and
+ which was annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was
+ twenty-four minutes past one."
+
+These "Observations" contain much curious information; but are deformed by
+the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian writer (at p. 358.
+and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own. Having seen that
+essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of attending to my
+observations, he would not read them, and got into a passion against the
+friend who showed the MS. to me.
+
+J. McK.
+
+Shoreham.
+
+_Lines on Woman_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &c.).--The lines on Woman are,
+I presume, an altered version of those of Barret (Mrs. Barrett Browning?);
+they are the finale of a short poem on Woman; the correct version is the
+following:
+
+ "Peruse the sacred volume, Him who died
+ Her kiss betray'd not, nor her tongue denied;
+ While even the Apostle left Him to His doom,
+ She linger'd round His cross and watch'd His tomb."
+
+I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for
+insertion.
+
+MA. L.
+
+ [Our correspondent furnishes an addition to our list of parallel
+ passages. The lines quoted by W. V. and those now given by our present
+ correspondent can never be different readings of the same poem.
+ Besides, it has been already shown that the lines asked for are from
+ the poem entitled _Woman_, by Eaton Stannard Barrett (see ante, pp.
+ 350. 423.).]
+
+_Satin_ (Vol. vii., p. 551.).--In a note just received by me from Canton,
+an American friend of mine remarks as follows:
+
+ "When you write again to 'N. & Q.' you can say that the word _satin_
+ (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese origin,
+ and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the English to
+ imitate the Chinese _sz-tuen_, have {18} approximated closely to it,
+ and to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the place
+ referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. _satin_, W. _sidan_, &c. &c."
+
+I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote,
+have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my
+Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have shown
+the above extract.
+
+W. T. M.
+
+Hong Kong.
+
+_"Quid facies," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).--
+
+ "BIERVE, _N. Marechal_, _Marquis de_, a Frenchman well known for his
+ ready wit and great facetiousness. He wrote two plays of considerable
+ merit, _Les Reputations_ and _Le Seducteur_. He died at Spa, 1789, aged
+ 42. He is author of the distich on courtezans:
+
+ 'Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante?
+ Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'"
+
+--Lempriere's _Universal Biography_, abridged from the larger work, London,
+1808.
+
+C. FORBES.
+
+Temple.
+
+_Sotades_ (Vol. viii., p. 520.).--Your correspondent CHARLES REED says that
+Sotades was a Roman poet 250 B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma
+tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, according
+to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith's
+_Dictionary of Biography_, Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a
+few fragments of his poems, but none of them are palindromical. The
+authority for his having written so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86.
+2.:
+
+ "Nec retro lego Sotaden cinaedum."
+
+ZEUS.
+
+_The Third Part of "Christabel"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.).--Has the
+_Irish Quarterly Review_ any other reason for ascribing this poem to Maginn
+than the common belief which makes him the sole and original Morgan
+Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little value, as, exclusive of some
+pieces under that name which have been avowed by other writers, many of the
+Odoherty papers contain palpable internal evidence of having been written
+by a Scotchman, or at least one very familiar with Scotland, which at that
+time he was not; even the letter accompanying the third part of
+_Christabel_ is dated from Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove
+nothing, the circumstances above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir's evidence
+as to the time when Maginn's contributions to _Blackwood_ commenced, seems
+strongly presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most
+distinguished writers in _Blackwood_ are still alive, and could, no doubt,
+clear up this point at once, if so inclined.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Attainment of Majority_ (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).--In my last
+communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to prove
+that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think, A. E. B.
+will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man attains his
+majority commence at six o'clock A.M., or at midnight? We must remember
+that we are dealing with a question of _English_ law; and therefore the
+evidence of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the
+latter mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A. E. B.
+has defended Ben Jonson's use of the former, viz. _Roman_.
+
+In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said:
+
+ "It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at eleven
+ at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his age
+ at one o'clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies, it
+ is a good will, for he was then of age."--_Salkeld_, 44.; _Raymond_,
+ 480, 1096; 1 _Siderfin_, 162.
+
+In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six hours
+before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not regarding
+the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves that the
+day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at midnight.
+
+RUSSELL GOLE.
+
+_Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton_ (Vol. viii., pp. 429. 543.).--In answer
+to J. W. J.'s Query, I beg to state that I have in my possession a codicil
+of Mrs. Conduit's will in her own hand, dated 26th of January, 1737. This
+document refers to some theological tracts by Sir Isaac Newton, in his
+handwriting, which I have. On referring to the pedigree of the Barton
+family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married Catherine Greenwood,
+whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of Messrs. Greenwood,
+army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who married Elizabeth
+Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find no mention of Colonel
+Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been previously connected with that of
+Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of Barton Segrave, having married Jane
+Barton of Brigstock. The writer of this note will be obliged if J. W. J.,
+or any correspondent of "N. & Q.," will inform him if anything is known
+respecting an ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or
+Marchant, which is said to have been an excellent likeness.
+
+S. X.
+
+ [The ivory bust referred to by our correspondent is, we believe, in the
+ British Museum.]
+
+_The fifth Lord Byron_ (Vol. viii., p. 2.).--I cannot but think that MR.
+HASLEDEN'S memory has deceived him as to the "wicked lord" having {19}
+settled his estates upon the marriage of his son; how is this to be
+reconciled with the often published statement, that the marriage of his son
+with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the admiral, and aunt of the late and
+present lords, was made not only without the consent, but in spite of the
+opposition, of the old lord, and that he never forgave his son in
+consequence?
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).--In connexion with a Query which
+was kindly noticed by MR. ALGOR of Sheffield, who did not however
+communicate anything new to me, I would ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq.,
+formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750,
+I find recorded in the Obituary of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for that
+year? I am also desirous to ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton
+of St. Helens, whose daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes,
+Esq., ancestor of the Sikes's of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died
+since 1696. Both Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons
+of Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query
+referred.
+
+E. H. A.
+
+_Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus_ (Vol. viii., p.
+563.).--In answer to MR. GANTILLON'S inquiry for the above translation, I
+beg to state that it will be found appended to an octavo edition of
+Hodgson's poem of _Lady Jane Grey_.
+
+In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work before
+me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which BALLIOLENSIS
+inquiries. The justly admired translation of _Edwin and Angelina_, to which
+the latter refers, was by Hodgson's too early lost friend Lloyd. The
+splendid pentameter is slightly misquoted by BALLIOLENSIS. It is not--
+
+ "Poscimus in _terris_ pauca, nec illa diu."
+
+but--
+
+ "Poscimus in _vita_," &c.
+
+THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER.
+
+Wymeswold, Loughborough.
+
+_Wylcotes' Brass_ (Vol. viii., p. 494.).--I should hardly have supposed
+that any difficulty could exist in explaining the inscription:
+
+ "In . on . is . all."
+
+To me it appears self-evident that it must be--
+
+ "In one (God) is my all."
+
+H. C. C.
+
+_Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c_. (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--I would
+refer J. B. WHITBORNE to _The Antiquities of Berkshire_ (so miscalled), by
+Elias Ashmole; where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has
+given the inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing _and legible in his
+time_. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was ever
+of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy
+Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7 the
+manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the
+brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566,
+ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not
+1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly
+given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles,
+threaded in fesse, gules." A grant or confirmation of this coat was made by
+Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks, natural
+son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no crest nor
+motto.
+
+H. C. C.
+
+_The Keate Family_ (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)--Should the Query of
+G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr. Burke's
+_Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_ relating to the Keate family,
+as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be able, on
+application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars which are
+not noticed in Mr. Burke's works.
+
+H. C. C.
+
+_Sir Charles Cotterell_ (Vol viii., p. 564.).--Sir Charles Cotterell, the
+translator of _Cassandra_, died in 1687. (See Fuller's _Worthies_, by
+Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.)
+
+[Greek: Halieus].
+
+Dublin.
+
+_Huc's Travels_ (Vol. viii., p. 516.).--Not having seen the _Gardener's
+Chronicle_, in which C. W. B. says the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in
+Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure fabrication, concocted by some
+Parisian _litterateur_, I cannot know what degree of credit, if any, is to
+be given to such a statement. All I wish to communicate at present for the
+information of your Querist C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account
+and abstract of Messrs. Huc and Gabet's _Travels_ in one of the ablest and
+best conducted French reviews, _La Revue des Deux Mondes_; in which not the
+least suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed
+as to the genuineness of these _Travels_. Mr. Princep, also, in his work on
+Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc's Travel's, and avails himself
+extensively of the information contained in them with reference to
+Buddhism, &c.
+
+Should the writer in the _Gardener's Chronicle_ have it in his power to
+_prove_ the _Travels_ to be a fabrication, he will confer a benefit on the
+world of letters by unmasking the fabricator.
+
+J. M.
+
+Oxford.
+
+_Pictures at Hampton Court Palace_ (Vol. viii., p. 538.).--In reply to
+[Phi].'s question when the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King {20}
+George III., after the Prince of Wales assumed the command of that
+regiment, I beg to state that the Prince entered the army as
+brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the regiment received the title of "The
+Prince of Wales's own Regiment of Light Dragoons" on Michaelmas Day, 1783:
+that the regiment was stationed in the south of England and in the vicinity
+of London for many years, from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George
+III. repeatedly reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family.
+That the Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in
+1793, and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That
+the regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799;
+and the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty's
+orders to convey his Majesty's approbation of its excellent appearance and
+performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted in
+1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free from
+errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852.
+
+M. A.
+
+Pembroke College, Oxon.
+
+_John Waugh_ (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).--Does KARLEOLENSIS know
+whether John Waugh, son of Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to
+whom?
+
+Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and
+thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of
+Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire.
+
+Exeter.
+
+_Daughters taking their Mothers' Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--When
+BURIENSIS asks for instances of this, and mentions "Alicia, daughter of
+Ada," as an example, is he not mistaking, or following some one else who
+has mistaken, the _gender_ of the parent's name? _Alicia fil. Adae_ would
+be rendered "Alice Fitz-Adam," unless there be anything in the context to
+determine the gender otherwise.
+
+J. SANSOM.
+
+"_Service is no Inheritance_" (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--This proverbial
+saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under which the
+lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before admitting the
+heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase. On which
+occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or heir,
+"fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;" the relief being generally a
+year's rent or service.
+
+ANON.
+
+_Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver_ (Vol. viii., p. 340.).--If your
+correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the anecdote here alluded
+to, I think I can confidently refer him to any biographical notice of
+Grindling Gibbons--to whom the story of the "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons
+was recommended to Sir Christopher by Evelyn, I think; but not having "made
+a note of it," I am not sure that it is to be found in his _Diary_.[4] If
+there be any monograph Life of Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found
+there.
+
+M. (2)
+
+[Footnote 4: See Evelyn's _Diary_, vol. ii. pp. 53, 54., edition
+1850.--ED.]
+
+_Souvaroff's Despatch_ (Vol. viii., p. 490).--Souvaroff's doggerel despatch
+from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual, misspelt and
+mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have never yet seen in
+English, a correct version of it:
+
+ "Slava Bogou, slava Vam;
+ Krepost vziala, ee ya tam."
+
+ "Glory to God, glory to You,
+ The fortress is taken, and I am there."
+
+DMITRI ANDREEF.
+
+_Detached Church Towers_ (Vol. viii., p. 63.).--In the lists I have seen no
+mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church, which stands at a
+distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the church.
+
+W. B. D.
+
+Lynn.
+
+_Queen Anne's Motto_ (Vol. viii., p. 174.).--The Historical Society of
+Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms, painted on wood
+in the time of Queen Anne, having "Anna R." at the top, and the motto
+_Semper eadem_ on the scroll below. It probably was in one of the
+Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the Revolution.
+
+UNEDA.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+_Lawyers' Bags_ (Vol. vii. _passim_).--The communication of MR. KERSLEY, in
+p. 557., although it does not support the inference which COL. LANDMAN
+draws, that the colour of lawyers' bags was changed in consequence of the
+unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen Caroline, seems to
+show that _green_ was at one time the colour of those professional pouches.
+The question still remains, when and on what occasion it was discontinued;
+and when the purple, and when the crimson, were introduced?
+
+When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior barrister
+presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one had been
+presented to him by a king's counsel; who, when a junior was advancing in
+practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his increase of
+business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his papers. It was then
+a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a junior was rising {21} in
+his profession. I do not know whether the same custom prevailed in the
+other courts.
+
+CAUSIDICUS.
+
+In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The custom
+has declined of late years among the members of the legal profession, and
+it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers, who thus carry
+their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now the badge of a
+cordwainer in this city.
+
+[Old English W].
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+_Bust of Luther_ (Vol. viii., p. 335.).--MR. J. G. FITCH asks for
+information respecting a bust of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall
+of a house, in the Dom Platz at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned,
+through a German acquaintance, who has resided the greater part of his life
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+Luther's having, during a short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot;
+and that the words surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He
+adds that Luther at no period of his life "lived for some years" at
+Frankfort, as stated by MR. FITCH.
+
+ALFRED SMITH.
+
+_Grammar in relation to Logic_ (Vol. viii., pp. 514. 629.).--H. C. K.'s
+remarks are of course indisputable. But it is a mistake to suppose that
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+"superficial views," or any other disagreeable thing, to those who stand
+_confessed_, without abandoning the pseudonym.
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